https://apnews.com/article/covid19-scientist-zhang-yongzhen-protest-china-f67abcea6a60f4e68a7a52fd7b8928e0

BEIJING (AP) — The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China said he was allowed back into his lab after he spent days locked outside, sitting in protest.

Zhang Yongzhen wrote in an online post on Wednesday, just past midnight, that the medical center that hosts his lab had “tentatively agreed” to allow him and his team to return and continue their research for the time being.