Scientists Obfuscated Source of COVID-19-Like Virus Stored at Wuhan Lab

Virus named RaTG13 was discovered in an abandoned mine in Mojiang, Yunnan, nearly 10 years ago

Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli is seen inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan, capital of China's Hubei Province, on Feb. 23, 2017. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images

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Shi Zhengli, the director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), is the common thread through which many key research projects and gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses are connected.