President Biden signed into law on Monday directing the federal government to declassify information about the origins of COVID-19.
A bipartisan law allows the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information related to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. Lists potential inks for research in facilities and outbreaks.
“My administration will continue to investigate all classified information related to the origin of COVID-19, including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Biden said in a statement. In enforcing, my administration will declassify and share as much information as possible, consistent with my constitutional mandate to protect against disclosure of information that would harm national security. increase.”
FBI director says COVID pandemic ‘most likely’ originated from Chinese lab
U.S. intelligence agencies are divided over whether a laboratory leak or an animal spill is likely the source of the deadly virus. The true origins of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than millions around the world, may have remained unknown for years, he said.
The National Intelligence Council and four other agencies have assessed “low confidence” that the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by natural transmission from infected animals. CIA and another unnamed agency to be determined.
“Three years have passed since then COVID-19 Our lives have changed, but we still ask fundamental questions about the origin of this virus. That’s unacceptable,” Mike Gallagher, chairman of the newly created House Select Committee on China, previously told Fox News Digital.
“The question of how this pandemic started is the most important issue in the world, and waiting for the Chinese Communist Party to suddenly cooperate with the US authorities and open access to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, it is a valuable We should not continue to waste time,” he added. “It is time for Congress to act and force the administration to declassify relevant information surrounding the pandemic.”
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.