He United States Congress approved this Friday a bill that requests the national intelligence director, Avril Haines, to declassify the information related to 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 COVID-19 pandemic originated in a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (China) and believes that Haines should “declassify and make available to the public all possible information.”
The objective, according to that bill, is that the United States and other countries can identify the origin “as soon as possible” and use that information to take measures that do not allow similar pandemics to occur.
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The bill intends that this declassification take place at the latest 90 days after the promulgation, which now only has the signature of the US president, Joe Biden, pending.
The requested data includes information on coronavirus research that the Wuhan laboratory conducted before the outbreak of COVID-19, and on researchers who fell ill in the fall of 2019, including whether they visited a hospital while sick.
The director of the US federal police (FBI), Christopher Wray, expressed his belief in late February that the pandemic was “probably” caused by a leak in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
The spokesman for the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, later acknowledged that within the US Administration there is no consensus on the origin of the pandemic and that Washington wants “facts” in order to avoid other pandemics in the future.
