Biden signed the bill titled “COVID-19 Origins Act”, which was passed unanimously by Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress at the beginning of March and will declassify information about the origins of the coronavirus.
“We need to dig into the origins of COVID-19 to help us better prevent future outbreaks,” the US President said in a written statement. “My administration will continue to review all confidential information regarding the origins of COVID-19, including potential links at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” expressions were used.
Noting that he commissioned intelligence agencies to investigate the origin of the virus in 2021, Biden stated that with the law he signed, it would be possible to share the information in question as much as possible.
The law, which passed without opposition from both the House of Representatives and the Senate, will direct the US Department of National Intelligence to investigate “coronavirus research or other related activities carried out at the Wuhan Institute of Virology before the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic.”
The bill passed Parliament shortly after the Department of Energy determined that a lab leak was the most likely cause of the COVID-19 outbreak.
While the Republican wing of the USA, in particular, claims that COVID-19, which has claimed the lives of more than 1 million Americans since the beginning of the epidemic, spread from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, government officials are making more cautious statements that the virus spread from a laboratory or was transmitted from animals.