A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson has claimed that researchers at the Wuhan lab deserve the Nobel Prize just as calls renew for a harder look into whether the virus that causes COVID-19 could have leaked from the facility.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), hosts China’s first P4 laboratory, the highest biosafety designation that allows it to handle the world’s most dangerous pathogens. The lab is located just a few miles from a major seafood market in the city that Beijing first identified as the source of the virus.
