Daily Mail News UK
By CASSIDY MORRISON SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
UPDATED: 17:22 EDT, 8 August 2023
A Chinese-backed biolab in California was awarded over half a million dollars in US taxpayer cash, records show.
The black market lab – which was raided earlier this year – was found to be making illegal Covid and pregnancy tests and storing disease-riddled mice and hundreds of samples of pathogens, blood, and other dubious chemicals.
Public records show that the company linked to the lab received nearly $150,000 from the US government under a Covid-era loan program, receiving two separate loans of $74,912 in April 2020 and February 2021.