“Back in 2017, international experts drew attention to the low security level in the Chinese laboratories. They indicated that several serious unauthorized leaks of the SARS coronavirus occurred from Chinese laboratories during 2014-2017, ” reads the report.
The publication clarifies that the laboratory in Wuhan was certified as a lab meeting the BSL-4 safety standards and criteria.
“The first BSL-4 laboratory in Japan, for example, was built in 1981, but until 2015 did not work with pathogens due to an imperfect security system. In China, the security problem was not taken too much into account," said the report.
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