US President Donald Trump signed a executive regulation on Monday by which has limited a certain form of biological research, which his administration claims to have caused a pandemic of Covid-19, And the escape of the virus from the laboratory in China. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
Based on the latest United States Regulation In certain countries, the financing of the so -called. Gain-of-Function experiments aimed at improving the properties of pathogens. “There is no laboratory that is immune to leaks – and this measure is intended to prevent unwanted leaks in the future and threatening humanity,” wrote the Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy on social network X.
“Every state involved in this research threatens its own population as well as the whole world, as we could see during the Covid pandemic,” The director of the National Institute of Health Jay Bhattacharya said.
AFP recalls that Trump has long been pushing for theory that Coronavirus Sars-Cov-2 escaped from a laboratory in Wu-Chan, China. The White House in April has set up a new Covid.Gov website supporting this theory. Several government agencies, including the Federal Investigation Office (FBI), the US CIA secret service, and the Ministry of Energy, are currently inclined to this theory.
In 2010-19, the US National Institute of Health (NIH) financed the research of coronaviruses in Wu-Chan through a non-profit organization, but this Trump canceled during his first term of office in 2020. His successor Joe Biden has partially renewed this funding.
White House chief in his order He cited China as a “interest country” in which such a type of research should not be supported. According to the Regulation, the financing of other types of research in the field of biological sciences in countries considered to be insufficiently controlled should be terminated. By this step, the US administration significantly expands the range of foreign research to which restrictions could apply.
The Trump Regulation also calls for the elaboration of the strategy “Management, Restrictions and Monitoring of Dangerous Gain-of-Function research in the United States, which takes place without federal funding”, Although the scope of government control over research outside federal supervision is not clear. At the same time, the Regulation calls for the adoption of new laws to fill the legislative holes.
Trump’s administration seeks to reform American policy in science and health, Even by dismissing scientists and a significant reduction in research budgets, AFP writes.
