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“We need to get to the bottom of the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic,” Joe Biden said on Monday, announcing the enactment of a law that allows documents relating to the origins of the pandemic to be declassified. due to this coronavirus.
US President Joe Biden announced in a statement on Monday March 20 that he had enacted a law which 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 that we can better prevent future pandemics,” Joe Biden said, adding, “My administration will declassify and release the most possible information”, while respecting, however, “national security”.
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.
A laboratory accident?
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.
With AFP
