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The president of the United States, Joe Biden, announced this March 20 that he enacted a law that allows declassifying documents on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, which appeared in China.
“We need to get to the bottom of the origins of Covid-19,” US President Joe Biden said in a statement, enacting a law that allows documents on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic to be declassified.
“By enforcing this legislation, my administration will declassify and share as much information as possible,” without compromising “national security,” he promised. The law poses political risks for Biden, who has a rocky relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Chance or filtering?
Beijing vehemently rejects the possibility that a leak during an investigation at the Wuhan laboratory has unleashed the global pandemic. However, much of the US Congress wants to delve into that theory, particularly Biden’s Republican opponents. Congress passed and sent the transfer bill to Biden in March.
The Covid-19 outbreak began in 2019 in the eastern Chinese city of Wuhan and has so far led to nearly seven million deaths worldwide, according to official counts, more than a million of them in the United States. .
Health officials and US intelligence services remain divided on whether it was randomly transmitted to humans from an infected animal or leaked during research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
combat and prevent
FBI Director Christopher Wray said three weeks ago that the agency believes the Covid-19 pandemic was “most likely” caused by an incident at the Wuhan laboratory.
Earlier, the Department of Energy had determined that a leak from a Chinese laboratory was the most likely cause of the outbreak. However, other US agencies believe that the virus arose naturally in the world.
The scientific community considers it crucial to determine the origins of the pandemic in order to better combat the next one, or even prevent it.
