US National Institutes of Health Ending Subaward for Lab in Wuhan, China

The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, on April 17, 2020. oratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is designated to be at the highest level of biological safety in Wuhan on April 17, 2020. (AFP via Getty Images/Hector Retamal)AFP via Getty Images/Hector Retamal

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has ended a subgrant to the laboratory in China located where the first COVID-19 cases were identified in 2019.

Starting in 2014, U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance was granted $3.7 million to study bat-related coronaviruses. It conveyed some of the money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), located in China.