Reading between the lines (the institute gave the research team two days to leave..., their students’ incomplete experiments were now “impossible to save"...),

Reading between the lines (the institute gave the research team two days to leave..., their students’ incomplete experiments were now “impossible to save"...), it sounds like this was not a planned move or reno. One possibility could be that they had a leak and everyone had to be evacuated, but perhaps the more concerning one would be that they were working on H5N1 (release the genome on one of the human-transmitted strains?), and were stopped