The lab in Wuhan, China suspected by some to be the source of the COVID-19 pandemic will no longer receive U.S. government funding.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology had not received federal dollars since July 2020, and the Department of Health and Human Services formally suspended funding on Monday, CNN reported. HHS officials cited safety concerns and a lack of cooperation as reasons for the suspension.
“The move was undertaken due to WIV’s failure to provide documentation on WIV’s research requested by NIH related to concerns that WIV violated NIH’s biosafety protocols,” an HHS spokesperson said, according to CNN.
