Promulgation of a transparency law on the origins of Covid-19
Joe Biden has enacted a law, supported by both Democrats and Republicans, to declassify documents relating to the origins of the pandemic.
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Joe Biden wants to “publish as much information as possible”, while respecting, however, “national security”.
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US President Joe Biden announced in a statement on Monday that he had enacted a law that allows the declassification of documents concerning the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, which appeared in China.
“We need to get to the bottom of the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic to ensure we can better prevent future pandemics,” Biden said. “My administration will declassify and publish as much information as possible”, while respecting, however, “national security”, promised the president.
Consensus
Supported initially by the Republican opposition, this text was finally the subject of a massive consensus with the Democrats, since it was voted unanimously by the House of Representatives – with a conservative majority. This is all the more notable since the pandemic has created particularly deep partisan divisions in the United States, whether on vaccination for example or preventive measures.
Federal Police Director Christopher Wray recently said a lab accident in Wuhan, China was “very likely” to be the cause of the Covid-19 pandemic, shortly after a similar hypothesis put forward by the US Department of Health. ‘Energy.
This has led the World Health Organization in particular to ask Americans to share their information. The scientific community remains divided between supporters of the hypothesis of transmission by intermediate animal and those who defend the thesis of the escape from a laboratory in Wuhan.
(AFP)
