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Biden Signs Bill Declassifying US Intelligence on COVID-19 Origin

Washington, March 21 (QNA) – US President Joe Biden has signed a bill requiring the release of intelligence materials on the potential links between the COVID-19 pandemic and a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

“We need to get to the bottom of COVID-19’s origins…, including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Biden said in a statement.

Biden added that with the implementation of the legislation, his “administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible.” The legislation, called the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, which passed the Senate and House with unanimous support earlier this month, orders the Director of National Intelligence to declassify within 90 days of enactment all information relating to potential links between Chinas Wuhan Institute of Virology and COVID-19. The director is then to submit the information in a report to Congress.

The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 1.1 million in the United States, and millions more around the globe.

The question of COVID-19’s origins has been hotly debated since the start of the global pandemic more than three years ago. Theories have included suggestions that the virus was engineered in a laboratory and then transmitted to humans. (QNA)

Source: Qatar News Agency

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