At the opening ceremony of the fourth meeting of the 13th Shanghai CPPCC on the 23rd, “sound public health emergency management system” has been included in the main tasks of 2021. According to a report by China Business News, Zhu Tongyu, a member of the CPPCC National Committee and director of the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, pointed out that the planning of the P4 laboratory in Shanghai is currently under application to the state and is expected to be completed in about three years at the earliest.
Zhu Tongyu stressed that the P4 laboratory is also an important part in the construction of the public health system. Shanghai is a large international transportation hub center, and the possibility of some viruses from outside the country entering Shanghai is greater, so if Shanghai can have a P4 laboratory, it can quickly carry out the testing work of the relevant viruses.
At present, the mainland domestic Wuhan, Harbin, two cities to build a P4 level of biosafety laboratory. P4 laboratory generally refers to biosafety level four laboratory, biosafety is based on the different degrees of sealing for classification, the highest level and security of biosafety laboratories, units engaged in pathogenic microbial experiments.
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