The House voted unanimously to declassify intelligence on possible links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Covid-19 pandemic.The effort by Congress to declassify intelligence on the origins of Covid comes after the Energy Department concluded with"low confidence" that the virus most likely escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, as the result of an accident.
The House of Representatives on Friday unanimously voted to declassify information on possible links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and theThe Senate also voted unanimously earlier this month to require Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to declassify such information. Covid first emerged in Wuhan, China, in 2019, though it's still unknown how the virus spread to people. Scientists have clashed for years over whether Covid came from an infected animal that transmitted the virus to humans, or whether the pathogen escaped from a lab in Wuhan.
The Energy Department is one of 18 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community. The department was previously undecided on how the virus emerged. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has also concluded that the pandemic likely started with a lab incident in Wuhan, the agency's director, Christopher Wray,