A Wuhan lab posted a job advert looking for experts on virus transmission and bats just days before China reported an outbreak of the diesease.
The official website of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) shows a recruitment notice looking to hire scientists for research.
The job advert was posted on December 24 last year, seven days before China officially declared an outbreak of Covid-19. WIV is located is located just ten miles from the epicentre of the outbreak in Whuhon.
The laboratory, which is said to be the most advanced of its kind in China, listed other similar jobs back in November, including an advert for a researcher to investigate how viral outbreaks “reduce the harm caused by infectious diseases in humans”.
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