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Scientist Who Sequenced COVID-19 Virus Allowed to Return to Lab After Protest

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Zhang Yongzhen had staged a sit-in demonstration opposing his lockout.

Zhang Yongzhen, the first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China, says he has been allowed to return to his lab hosted at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center after staging a sit-in protest.
via YouTube / Associated Press

The first Chinese scientist to publish a genomic sequence of the COVID-19 virus—without permission of government health authorities—says he has been allowed to return to his lab following a sit-in protest he started after he claimed to have been locked out of the facility over the weekend.

Virologist Zhang Yongzhen on...

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