Originally Posted by
RecoveringYuppy
Could you clarify: What wasn't where in 2003?
The Wuhan Institute of Virology in its present form:
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In 2003, the Chinese academy of Sciences approved the construction of China's first biosafety level 4 (BSL–4) laboratory at the WIV. The construction of the WIV's National Bio-safety Laboratory was completed at a cost of 300 million yuan ($44 million) in collaboration with the French government's CIRI lab at the end of 2014.[2][4] The new laboratory building has 3000 m2 of BSL-4 space, and also 20 BSL-2 and two BSL-3 laboratories.[5]
In response to SARS a large part of the research was located in Wuhan. I'm not sure what's currently going on at the Beijing facility that also studied SARS at the time.
SARS did not emerge in Wuhan. Why would SARS 2 coincidentally emerge near the lab?