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Wuhan Center. Wuhan Center ( simplified Chinese: 武汉中心; traditional Chinese: 武漢中心; pinyin: Wǔhàn Zhōngxīn) is a skyscraper in Wuhan near Wuhan Business District Station in Jianghan District, Wuhan, Hubei, China. [2] The skyscraper's construction started in 2011, and was completed by 2019. The tower was topped out on April 16 ...
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The Wuhan Center, the second tallest skyscraper in Wuhan, was the tallest building in the city when it was completed in 2019. It retained the title until Wuhan Greenland Center surpassed it in 2023. Riverview Plaza is a 376 meters (1,234 ft) tall skyscraper located in Wuhan. It was completed in 2021 and is currently the third tallest building ...
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The WIV was founded in 1956 as the Wuhan Microbiology Laboratory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). It was established by scientists Gao Shangyin, a graduate of Soochow University (Suzhou), and Chen Huagui.In 1961, it became the South China Institute of Microbiology, and in 1962 was renamed Wuhan Microbiology Institute. In 1970, it became...
SARS-related coronaviruses
In 2005, a group including researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology published research into the origin of the SARS coronavirus, finding that China's horseshoe bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses.Continuing this work over a period of years, researchers from the institute sampled thousands of horseshoe bats in locations across China, isolating over 300 bat coronavirus sequences. In 2015, an international team including two scientists from the institute published succe...
COVID-19 pandemic
In December 2019, cases of pneumonia associated with an unknown coronavirus were reported to health authorities in Wuhan. The institute checked its coronavirus collection and found the new virus had 96% genetic similarity to RaTG13, a virus its researchers had discovered in horseshoe batsin southwest China. As the virus spread worldwide, the institute continued its investigation. In February 2020, a team led by Shi Zhengli at the institute were the first to identify, analyze and name the gene...
The laboratory has been the focus of conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated speculation about the origin of the virus. This has been a source of political tension between China and other countries, including Australia and the United States. There have been allegations that the initial outbreak was provoked by either manipulation or accidental rele...
The Institute contains the following research centers: 1. Center for Emerging Infectious Disease 2. Chinese Virus Resources and Bioinformatics Center 3. Center of Applied and Environmental Microbiology 4. Department of Analytical Biochemistry and Biotechnology 5. Department of Molecular Virology
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- Chen Huagui, Gao Shangyin
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Aug 10, 2020 · The Wuhan Institute of Virology, founded in the 1950s, is a prominent research facility that enjoyed an even more elevated profile after it opened the BSL-4 lab in 2015.
443.1 m / 1,454 ft. 3. Occupied: Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the highest occupied floor within the building. 399.2 m / 1,310 ft. 1 2 3. Floors. Above Ground. The number of floors above ground should include the ground floor level and be the number of main floors above ground ...
Feb 11, 2021 · A worker wearing a mask, watches from inside a hospital across the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention after the World Health Organization team arrive to make a field visit in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province on Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Mar 30, 2021 · The report noted that a separate laboratory run by the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention had moved in late 2019 to a new location near the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan ...
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