“I share Congress’s goal of publishing all possible information about the origins of COVID-19,” the president said in a statement announcing his signing of the law, the final step before its promulgation.
The standard asks the National Director of Intelligence, Avril Haines, release the information on the origin of covid-19, pointing out that there are reasons to believe that the covid-19 pandemic originated in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (China), a theory for which there is no evidence so far.
In his message, Biden stressed that his administration will continue to analyze any information about the possible origin of the disease, “including possible links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
The Democrat clarified that he will allow the release of any information “that is possible.” without jeopardizing national security.
The Director of the US Federal Police (FBI), Christopher Wray, expressed his belief in late February that the pandemic was “probably” caused by a leak in a lab in Wuhan, despite many scientists considering the most plausible theory to be the virus jump from animals to humans.
However, two U.S. intelligence agencies — one from the Department of Energy and the other from the FBI — point to the lab’s theory, albeit with “low” or “moderate” confidence, according to the U.S. network NPR, while four agencies opt for by the theory of natural origin.
On Saturday, the group of experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) research into the origins of the coronavirus raised the possibility that the raccoon dog, an animal sold in the Wuhan market where the pandemic began, was key in the transmission of the pathogen to humans.
Source: El heraldo
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