After the US Department of Energy received new classified information about the origins of the disease which triggered the pandemic in 2020, the North American authorities have again raised the possibility that the Covid-19 spread after the virus leaked from a laboratory in China.
AS The Wall Street Journal reported it this Sunday. to have consented to the investigation conducted in this regard, which ended in the aforementioned hypothesis which had been postulated at the beginning of the outbreak of the cases around the world.
According to the New York-based newspaper, the new conclusion is the result of the reading new intelligence dataTO.
And, according to the report, that’s significant given that Energy is the government portfolio it oversees a network of 17 US national laboratoriessome of which carry out advanced biological research.
However, the theory of accidental release of the virus it had already been lifted by the FBI in 2021who at the time claimed that the coronavirus was the result of a Wuhan laboratory accidentin China.
Curiously, at that moment, the Department of Energy had questioned that claim since he didn’t have enough evidence.
Now, after receiving more data on the development of the virus, the position of the authorities that make up the area has changed, according to international agencies based on the report of the American newspaper.
The new location was communicated through a “classified” intelligence report already recently supplied to the White House key members of the Congress (from the USA)” to which the aforementioned North American newspaper had access.
According to intelligence sources explained to the aforementioned US newspaper, this is because they found “new intelligence information, research studies and consultations with experts non-governmental”.
The United States neither denies nor confirms
When contacted about this, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, declined to confirm or deny the truthfulness of the information published by the Wall Street Journal.
Furthermore, in an interview on CNN this Sunday, Sullivan limited himself to pointing out that US intelligence I haven’t found a definitive answer yet. on the origin of covid-19.
He also pointed out that while some state agencies believe the virus originated in a laboratory, others say they don’t have enough information to draw a conclusion.
Finally, he added that if more data is obtained about its origins, the administration will report it to Congress and the public. “But at this time, no definitive answer has emerged from the intelligence community on this question,” she said.
Joe Biden had sent to investigate the origins of the virus
The above conclusions derive from the investigation requested by Joe Biden who in the midst of a health crisis ordered intelligence agencies to find the origins of the pandemic, after criticizing a WHO report.
The report of March 2021 of the World Health Organization said it was “extremely unlikely” that the virus accidentally emerged from a laboratory.
However, China named half of the scientists who wrote the report and exercised significant control over it. For this reason, the United States has decided to open its own investigation into the matter.
Source: Clarin
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