The United States Congress passed a bill that requires the Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, to declassify the information regarding the origin of Covid-19.
After its authorization in the Senate on March 1, the House of Representatives gave its unanimous approval with 419 votes in favor and none against.
The text points out that there are reasons to believe that the pandemic of Covid-19 originated in a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (China).
In addition, the document believes that Haines should “declassify and make available to the public as much information as possible.
The goal, according to that bill, is for the United States and other countries to be able to identify the origin “as soon as possible” and use that information to take the measures that do not allow similar pandemics to happen.
Declassification, no later than 90 days after promulgation
The bill intends that this declassification takes place no later than 90 days after promulgationwhich now only has the signature of the US president, Joe Biden, pending.
Among the requested data, information is sought on research on the coronavirus that the Wuhan laboratory carried out before the emergence of Covid-19, and on the researchers who fell ill in the fall of 2019including whether they visited a hospital while sick.
The director of the US federal police (FBI), Christopher Wray, expressed at the end of February his belief that the pandemic was “probably” caused by a leak in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby later acknowledged that in the Within the US government there is no consensus on the origin of the pandemic and that Washington wants “facts” so that it can avoid other pandemics in the future.
