Jerome Powell: "The pandemic continues to threaten health, life and economic activities"
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August 27, 2021 "Essential information on the origin of the pandemic exists in China, but from the beginning Chinese officials have worked to prevent international investigators from gaining access to it."
This was stated by President Joe Biden, who received the required report from American intelligence on the origin of Covid.
"The world deserves answers on Covid," adds Biden assuring that the United States will continue to work with its international partners to pressure China and cooperate.
The intelligence report on the origins of Covid is defined as 'inconclusive', and Biden denounces how China "continues to reject requests for transparency and withhold information". "Responsible nations - said Biden in a statement - do not shirk this kind of responsibility towards the rest of the world. Pandemics do not respect international borders and we must all better understand how Covid originated to avoid further pandemics" .
US intelligence: it was not developed as a biological weapon
US intelligence reached a "broad consensus" in ruling out that the new coronavirus was developed as a biological weapon. "This is stated in the non-confidential summary of a report. The community remains divided on the origins of the virus, however, with four agencies and the National Intelligence Council that favor the hypothesis of human-to-animal transmission, another agency that believes the virus has accidentally left a laboratory and three others that have not been able to reach a conclusion. that Chinese authorities were aware of the virus before the first Covid-19 outbreak.