The US Congress on Friday passed a bill asking the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, declassify information relating to the origin of the Covid-19which three years after being declared a pandemic has caused nearly 7 million deaths.
After the authorization in the Senate on March 1, the House of Representatives gave its approval unanimously with 419 votes in favor and none against.
The text underlines that there are reasons to believe that the Covid-19 it originated in a laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (China) and believes that Haines should “declassify and make as much information available to the public 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 measures that do not allow similar pandemics to occur.
It was also indicated that the proposal provides for such a declassification to take place at the latest 90 days after promulgationwhich now only has the signature of the US president, Joe Biden, pending.
The requested data seeks information on coronavirus research conducted by the Wuhan lab prior to the outbreak of the pandemic and researchers who fell ill in the fall of 2019, including whether they visited a hospital while ill.
The director of the United States 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.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby later acknowledged that there is no consensus within the US administration about the origin of the pandemic and that Washington wants “facts” to avoid more pandemics in the future, according to EFE extension. .
Three years ago the World Health Organization (WHO) used the word “pandemic” for the first time to talk about the emergency generated by the coronavirus. He March 11, 2020there have been around 118,000 infections and 4,291 deaths, while the number of deaths is estimated to have nearly reached seven million, according to the latest estimates.
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, more than 759 million infections have been reported, of which 6.87 million have lost their lives.
The impact, however, could be even greater, since there are estimates by the WHO itself which conclude that the victims could reach 17 million.
Source: Clarin
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