Researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology planned to release modified coronaviruses in the volatile mice population in 2018. Reports about it The Telegraph.
According to the newspaper, coronaviruses were to act as vaccinations from diseases capable of transmitted to people. The experiment was planned to hold in the Chinese province Hubei.
According to the publication, specialists asked 14 million dollars from the American Agency for promising research projects in the field of defense.
Earlier, the virologist estimated the possibility of leakage of coronavirus from the laboratory in Uhana. According to him, at the beginning of the work of the laboratory there were disadvantages. “Plinths are prohibited in BSL-4 laboratories. There is a bulk sex and the rounded transition from the floor to the walls so that there are no dust and cracks. So in the Wuhan Institute, part of the premises were, apparently, is not true. And this is a gross violation, Because the pathogen can get there, “he noted.