China Sequenced COVID-19 in Late 2019, Took 15 Days to Tell the World
Wuhan Institute of Virology is a research institute by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Jiangxia District, south of the Wuhan city, Hubei province, China. Ureem2805/CC BY SA 4.0
During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, as researchers around the world tried to get more clarity on how it came about, the Chinese authorities waited two weeks before releasing the virus sequence data to the public.
