Taiwan Researcher’s Covid-19 Bite Raises Questions

Infection from contaminated mouse raises concern over virus’s ability to escape from lab

By: Jens Kastner

In late December, Taiwan’s top research institute, Academia Sinica, was fined for violating regulations governing the management of infectious biological materials after a laboratory researcher was infected with Covid-19 in circumstances that continue to unsettle medical experts and add to suspicions that the original pandemic could have…