Biden enacts transparency law on origins of the COVID-19 pandemic

The president of USA, Joe Bidenannounced on Monday that it enacted a law that allows the declassification of documents on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. covid-19which appeared in China.

“We need to get to the bottom of the origins of the covid-19″, Biden said in a statement, noting that this includes the link between the outbreak of the pandemic and a laboratory in the Chinese city of wuhan.

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“In enforcing this legislation, my administration will declassify and share as much information as possible.”, without compromising the “National securityhe promised.

The law poses political risks for Biden, who has a rocky relationship with the Chinese leader. Xi Jinping.

Beijing He vehemently rejects the possibility that a leak during an investigation in 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 city of Wuhan. Chinaand so far it has caused almost seven million deaths worldwide, according to official counts, more than a million of them in USA.

But US health and intelligence officials remain divided on whether it was randomly transmitted to humans from an infected animal or leaked during an investigation conducted in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

FBI Director, Christopher Wraysaid three weeks ago that that agency believes that the covid-19 pandemic was caused “most likely” due to an incident in the Wuhan laboratory.

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Before 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.

Source: Elcomercio

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