Bio­gen fires staffer who fled to Chi­na af­ter she was in­fect­ed in the biotech’s coro­n­avirus out­break

Jie Li has more to con­tend with than the prospect of a years-long prison sen­tence af­ter the Bio­gen staffer hopped a flight to Chi­na with her fam­i­ly af­ter get­ting in­fect­ed with coro­n­avirus spread at a com­pa­ny meet­ing in late Feb­ru­ary.

The woman, iden­ti­fied by the Boston Globe as a sta­tis­ti­cian for the com­pa­ny, has al­so lost her job.

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