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National Post: The Wuhan disease lab is the focus of suspicion about COVID-19’s origins

Published April 17, 2020 at 1:14 am

This photo taken on Feb. 4, 2020 shows a medical staff member collecting a sample taken from a person to be tested for the new coronavirus at a quarantine zone in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, in China's central Hubei province.

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The basic facts are admittedly ripe for conspiracy theory: China’s only high-security infectious-disease laboratory is located in Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged. And the lab is famous for its sometimes controversial research on just such pathogens.