Last week the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) —the Chinese virology lab that is suspected by some to be the source of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak — is one of the candidates for its Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize. After the announcement, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian went a step further and called for the WIV to receive one of the top awards in medical research, the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
