On Friday, the US Congress passed a law obliging the US intelligence services to declassify their information about the origin of the pandemic, while the hypothesis of a leak from the laboratory came to the fore again, AFP and Agerpres reported.

In a rare moment of unification, the elected members of the House of Representatives voted for this text unanimously. It has already passed the Senate with bipartisan support, and Democratic President Joe Biden is expected to sign it into law.

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haynes will have 90 days to declassify “any information about a potential link between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of the coronavirus.”

The new coronavirus responsible for Covid-19 emerged more than three years ago in this Chinese province before spreading around the world, where it has killed at least seven million people.

The scientific and intelligence communities immediately attempted to determine the origin of the virus in order to prevent and more effectively combat a future pandemic.

At a congressional hearing this week, Avril Haynes emphasized that there is a broad consensus that “there is no such thing as biological weapons or genetic manipulation.”

However, the US intelligence community is divided between proponents of the “lab leak” hypothesis and proponents of “exposure to an infected animal,” Avril Haynes said.

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