Two Chinese Canadian virology scientists have been fired by the Public Health Agency of Canada after they were evicted from the National Microbiology Laboratory under a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigation that remains largely a mystery. “The two scientists are no longer employed by the Public Health Agency of Canada as of Jan. 20, 2021,” Eric Morrissette, chief of media relations for Health Canada and Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), told CBC News in an email on Feb. 5. “We cannot disclose additional information, nor comment further, for reasons of confidentiality.” On July 5, 2019, Xiangguo Qiu, her husband Keding Cheng, and a number of Qiu’s students were escorted from the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) and were stripped of their security access, according to an earlier report by CBC. PHAC told CBC that Qui and the others were removed for possible “policy breach” and administrative reasons, which was …
Two Chinese Canadian virology scientists have been fired by the Public Health Agency of Canada after they were evicted from the National Microbiology Laboratory under a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigation that remains largely a mystery. “The two scientists are no longer employed by the Public Health Agency of Canada as of Jan. 20,
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