{"id":63704,"date":"2024-04-30T16:58:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T07:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/30\/first-scientist-publish-covid-sequence-china-evicted-from-lab"},"modified":"2024-04-30T19:40:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T10:40:18","slug":"first-scientist-to-publish-covid-sequence-in-china-evicted-from-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63704","title":{"rendered":"First scientist to publish Covid sequence in China protests over lab \u2018eviction\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zhang Yongzhen stages sit-in protest, as government attempts to avoid scrutiny over handling of outbreak<\/p>\n<p>The first Chinese scientist to publish a genomic sequence of the Covid-19 virus, in defiance of government orders, has been staging a sit-in protest after claiming he was locked out of his laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang Yongzhen, a virologist, said in an online post on Monday that he and his team had been given a sudden eviction notice from their lab, and guards had barred him from entering it over the weekend. The post, published on Weibo, was later deleted, Associated Press (AP) reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/30\/first-scientist-publish-covid-sequence-china-evicted-from-lab\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhang Yongzhen stages sit-in protest, as government attempts to avoid scrutiny over handling of outbreakThe first Chinese scientist to publish a genomic sequence of the Covid-19 virus, in defiance of government orders, has been staging a sit-in protest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,918,458,50,1066,914,512,916,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-censorship","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63740,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63704\/revisions\/63740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}