By Le Figaro with AFP
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US President Joe Biden announced in a statement on Monday March 20 that he had enacted a law that allows the declassification of documents concerning the origins of the Covid-19 pandemicappeared in China. “We need to get to the bottom of the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic to ensure that we can better prevent future pandemics”said Joe Biden, adding: “My administration will declassify and release as much information as possible”while respecting the “national security”.
Supported initially by the Republican opposition, this text was finally the subject of a massive consensus with the Democrats, since it was voted unanimously by the House of Representatives – with a conservative majority. This is all the more notable since the pandemic has created particularly deep partisan divisions in the United States, whether on vaccination for example or preventive measures.
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Federal Police Director Christopher Wray recently deemed a lab accident in Wuhan China to be “very probably” at the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, shortly after a similar hypothesis put forward by the United States Department of Energy. This has led the World Health Organization (WHO) in particular to ask Americans to share their information. The scientific community remains divided between supporters of the hypothesis of transmission by intermediate animal and those who defend the thesis of the escape from a laboratory in Wuhan.