Biden Gives US Intelligence Services 90 Days To Find Out How Covid-19 Arose

The announcement comes after a US media published information about the fear of security authorities that the coronavirus would leave a research center in Wuhan.

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has just issued a statement ordering the espionage services of that country to "redouble their efforts to locate and analyze information that may bring us closer to a definitive conclusion" about how Covid-19 arose.

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Biden gives the US intelligence community 90 days to report back to him on the origins of the disease, which officially appeared in the Chinese city   of Wuhan in December 2019 and has infected 168 million people to date. people and caused the death of 3.5 million , according to the Johns Hopkins University of the United States, although the real figure is certainly several times higher. Covid-19 has also caused the biggest crisis in the world economy since the Great Depression, 90 years ago.

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Biden's announcement comes after the newspaper 'The Wall Street Journal' has published information stating that the US espionage services fear that the coronavirus came from a research center in Wuhan, probably the Institute of Virology in that city. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki has neither confirmed nor denied the newspaper's news, but has indicated that other countries convey to the United States their suspicions that the Covid could have been the product of an accident in a laboratory.

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In the statement, Biden recalls how China prevented foreign investigators from entering Wuhan in the first months of the tragedy. His order will undoubtedly further strain relations between the United States and China, which have deteriorated since Donald Trump came to power in 2017, and have undergone an undoubted turn for the worse with Biden, who assumed the presidency in January.

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Beijing, for its part, insists that Covid-19 went from an animal - possibly a bat - to a human being, and has even argued that the virus appeared outside the country and reached China in food products. The truth is that despite the fact that Covid-19 appeared in China, that country has eluded all responsibilities regarding the management of the pandemic.