Virologist Zhang Yongzhen, the primary scientist to submit a line of the COVID-19 virus, walks ailing a boulevard in Shanghai, China on Dec. 13, 2020. Zhang was once staging a sit-in protest later government locked him out of his lab. Zhang wrote in an internet put up on Monday, April 29, 2024, that he and his group have been all at once notified they have been being evicted from their lab, the fresh in a sequence of setbacks, demotions and ousters since he first printed the line in early January 2020.(AP Picture/Dake Kang)