Mystery around two fired scientists points to larger issues at Canada’s high-security lab, former colleagues say
'An honest, open discussion from the beginning would have been very, very useful'
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This article was published 07/07/2021 (1268 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Two leading scientists are standing by a pair of researchers fired from Canada’s only Level-4 virology lab, instead pointing the finger at issues inside the Winnipeg-based facility itself.
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her biologist husband, Keding Cheng, were stripped of their security clearances and escorted from the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in July 2019.
They were then fired in January, though the Public Health Agency of Canada has refused to say why.
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