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The Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday that it has officially barred the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) from receiving US funding for the next 10 years, as more...

T he Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday issued a notice barring the Wuhan Institute of Virology from federal funding for 10 years due to conducting experiments with high...

Wuhan Institute of Virology mission targeting for population health, agriculture and sustainable development strategies and public safety needs of the country, relying on high-level biosafety laboratory cluster platform, focusing on virology, Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology and emerging biotechnology basic and applied basic research and other aspects.

A researcher in the Wuhan Institute of Virology which may have been the origin of the coronavirus Credit: CHINATOPIX The World Health Organization (WHO) is pressing China to provide “full access ...

Former researcher from Wuhan Institute of Virology asserts that China deliberately engineered coronavirus as a bioweapon. (Image: Reuters File) A US federal agency has announced that it has officially banned China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) from receiving funding for the next 10 years.

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) will finally no longer receive U.S. funding and is formally debarred for 10 years:

The Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences ( WIV) is a research institute. It was designed to study virology. It is run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The institute is in Jiangxia District, Wuhan, Hubei. It opened China's first biosafety level 4 (BSL–4) laboratory in 2015.