China has operationalised its new biosecurity law to fortify the legal cover for the establishment and safe operation of more bio labs in the country. This report comes amid questions whether the COVID-19 originated from such a laboratory in Wuhan.

The novel Coronavirus emerged at China’s central Wuhan city in December 2019 and became a pandemic, upending life across the globe. Under the new Biosecurity Law, China will continue to build more labs specialising in advanced pathogenic microbiology with a scrupulous and scientific manner, the country’s Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Xiang Libin said.