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Wuhan Institute of Virology is a laboratory in Wuhan, China to study viruses administered by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The lab is near the site where the Wuhan virus was first detected in 2019. The lab was found in 1956 as the Wuhan Microbiology Laboratory. In 2015, the lab was upgraded to biosafety level 4 (BSL–4) with the help of French engineers and a grant of $3.7 million from the U.S. National institutes of health. It is first such lab in China. SARS escaped from a Beijing lab twice in 2004 and the upgrade was intended to address this problem.[1]