Washington [US], February 14: Republicans are conducting an investigation into the origins of Covid-19 and are seeking to obtain testimony and evidence.
Fulfilling a promise before the midterm elections, the US Republican House of Representatives on February 13 asked expert Anthony Fauci and many President Joe Biden administration officials to provide testimony related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Fauci served as the president's chief medical adviser and retired late last year.
According to Bloomberg, the US House of Representatives' Corona Virus Pandemic Subcommittee is mainly focusing on the theory that the virus that causes Covid-19 spread from a laboratory in Wuhan city (China), which is believed to receive funding from the US House of Representatives. America, rather than from the market in Wuhan.
Representative Brad Wenstrup, chairman of the subcommittee, said the goal is to end the refusal of scientists and government researchers to cooperate with what they know about the question of the US budget. support to Wuhan Institute of Virology.
"This investigation has to start with how and from where the virus emerged, so that we can predict, prepare for or prevent it from happening again," Wenstrup said.
Representative James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, which oversees the subcommittee on Covid-19, said there is growing evidence that the virus leaked from a laboratory did not. safe in Wuhan, and US tax dollars were sent to that lab to conduct risky research on coronaviruses in bats that "could have started the pandemic".
The committee believes that Mr. Fauci may have known about the US funding of the Wuhan laboratory to study genetic modification of the new Corona virus in bats and may have concealed the information in order to deliberately downplay the hypothesis that the virus leaked from the virus. laboratory.
Staff from the Covid-19 subcommittee will contact Mr. Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to arrange a deposition meeting.
In a statement on the evening of February 13, Fauci said he has always been open about the origins of Covid-19 and will certainly testify before any congressional committee if requested.
In addition to their request to Fauci, Republican lawmakers also asked Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, acting scientific adviser to the president, Francis Collins, to testify and provide documents.
Republicans also asked the Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to provide classified reports from intelligence and security agencies such as the CIA, FBI ...
Source: ThanhNien Newspaper