There was no consensus among the intelligence community on the origin of the coronavirus. The report said, this virus was not developed as a biological weapon.
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The US intelligence community concluded in a report that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, was not developed as a biological weapon. At the same time, President Joe Biden reiterated the allegation that China is suppressing information about the origin of the virus and rejecting appeals for transparency. Significantly, there have been allegations against China that it has spread the coronavirus to the world. However, China has denied the allegations.
The Director of National Intelligence, in a report prepared on the instructions of President Joe Biden, said on Friday that SARS-CoV-2 was probably initially spread on a small scale around November 2019 and that the first cases of infection were reported in Wuhan in December 2019. I appeared. However, there was no consensus among the intelligence community on the origin of the coronavirus. The report said, this virus was not developed as a biological weapon. Most agencies also estimate that SARS-CoV-2 may not have originated genetically. However, the two agencies believe that there is not enough evidence to confirm this assessment.
Intelligence agencies are divided on the origin of the virus
The intelligence community also believes that Chinese officials had no prior knowledge about the COVID-19 infection before it spread. It said, after assessing all available intelligence and other information, the intelligence community is still divided about the origin of COVID-19. All agencies assess that two things can happen: the spread of infection from an infected animal and the spread of infection from a lab-related incident. Some in the intelligence community assess that infection with SARS-CoV-2 may have been the result of a lab-related incident, possibly involving experiments, animal care, or sampling by a Wuhan lab.
Important information is in China, but it is being prevented from coming out: Biden
Meanwhile, giving information about receiving the report, Biden said in a statement that his administration will do everything possible to get to the root of this infection so that all necessary precautions can be taken to prevent it from happening again in the future. He said that important information about the origin of this epidemic is in China. But since the beginning, government officials in China have worked to prevent international investigators and members of the global public health community from detecting it. Biden alleged that so far China has been rejecting appeals for transparency and withholding information while the death toll from the epidemic continues to rise.
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