Images of the Wuhan P4 laboratory

Images of the exterior of the Wuhan P4 epidemiological laboratory that was built in co-operation with French bio-industrial firm Institut Merieux and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. China has come under mounting pressure from Western powers led by the United States, which said it was probing whether the virus that has infected more than 2.1 million people actually originated in a Wuhan laboratory. The facility is among a handful of labs around the world cleared to handle Class 4 pathogens (P4) - dangerous viruses that pose a high risk of person-to-person transmissio

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