Zhang Yongzhen’s disclosure of the genome of the virus that causes Covid-19 was a crucial step in the race to combat the pandemic. In the years since, people who know Zhang say he has faced a series of unprecedented roadblocks in his career in China. An account by Zhang’s research students posted online also laid out a litany of challenges faced by the scientist since the formal transfer of official employment to the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center in 2020.
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