Chemical Annihilation Covid 19

Before COVID19, few scientists would have pegged the city of Wuhan, in temperate central China, as a likely starting point for a global coronavirus pandemic. Its climate and fauna don t fit the bill. But the city of 11 million straddling the Yangtze River is home to some of China s most advanced biological research laboratories. And one of the secretive, staterun institutions, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is known to conduct experiments on the kind of virus that has killed nearly 3 million people worldwide so far since late 2019. Recently the lab leak hypothesis seems to have found new life.