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He President of the United States, Joe Bidensigned this Monday the LHey of the Origin of covid-19which allows to declassify information related to the origin of the coronavirus pandemic SARS-CoV-2 o covid-19.
The law had already been approved by Congress, but so far the White House he had expressed doubts regarding the possibility of it being ratified by the president.
“We need to get to the bottom of the origin of the covid-19 to ensure we can prevent future pandemics”, Biden explained in a statement. “My Administration will continue to review all classified information regarding the origins of covid-19, including the possible relationship with the Institute of Virology of Wuhan”, he added.
This new regulation will allowdeclassify and share as much information as possible” taking into account the presidential prerogative of “prevent the disclosure of information that might affect national securityhe”. Biden has also recalled that already in 2021 he ordered intelligence agencies to investigate the origin of the virus.
This law is the result of a Republican Senator Josh Hawley’s proposal and plans to order the director of National Intelligence “to declassify all information related to possible links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin” of the virus.
This includes the “activities developed by the Wuhan Institute of Virology in collaboration or for the “Chinese Army” and “coronavirus research or other activities linked performed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology before the beginning of the covid-19 infections.
The bill was approved shortly following a Department of Energy report was released that points to a leak from a laboratory as the most likely cause of the pandemic, although the The White House immediately clarified that there was no clear consensus on the matter.
The Republican Party has repeatedly pointed out on the run from a Chinese laboratory as the origin of the pandemicbut usually the US authorities have been cautious and have also weighed the animal-human transmission hypothesis.
