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118,000 persons infected and at least 4,291 dead in 114 
different countries at the time of the announcement; 
Whereas, by January 21, 2021, one year after the first 
COVID–19 case was confirmed in the United States, 
COVID–19 had infected at least 97,061,592 persons and 
killed at least 2,080,009 in 191 different countries; 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
argues that COVID–19 did not originate in the People’s 
Republic of China; 
Whereas the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Re-
public of China has alleged that the United States Army 
may have delivered COVID–19 to the city of Wuhan and 
that COVID–19 may have originated in Italy or ‘‘sepa-
rate outbreaks in multiple places in the world’’; 
Whereas the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Re-
public of China has said, ‘‘China’s endeavor to combating 
[sic] the epidemic has bought time for [international] 
preparedness’’; 
Whereas a University of Southampton study found that ear-
lier intervention by the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China could have ‘‘significantly’’ limited the ge-
ographic spread of COVID–19; 
Whereas more than 120 nations have called for an investiga-
tion of the origins of COVID–19; and 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
continues to prevent a credible international investigation 
of the origins of COVID–19, including by restricting ac-
cess by investigators to certain locations and information 
in the People’s Republic of China: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
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(1) condemns the decision by the Government 
of the People’s Republic of China to hide the emer-
gence and spread of COVID–19 within its borders 
during the initial weeks of the pandemic; 
(2) assesses that the decision by the Govern-
ment of the People’s Republic of China to hide the 
emergence and spread of COVID–19 during that pe-
riod almost certainly contributed to the rapid spread 
of that disease throughout the Indo-Pacific, Europe, 
and the rest of the world; 
(3) finds that the Government of the People’s 
Republic of China should be held accountable for the 
impact of its decision to hide the emergence and 
spread of COVID–19 on the lives and livelihoods of 
the people of the United States and other nations; 
(4) calls for an international investigation led 
by public health officials from the United States and 
other affected nations and free from any restrictions 
by the Government of the People’s Republic of 
China to determine how the handling by the Govern-
ment of the People’s Republic of China of the 
COVID–19 outbreak prior to March 11, 2020, con-
tributed to the emergence of the COVID–19 global 
pandemic; and 
(5) calls on the international community to— 
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(A) quantify the harm caused by the han-
dling of the Government of the People’s Repub-
lic of China to the health and economic well- 
being of the people of the United States and 
other nations; and 
(B) design a mechanism for delivering 
compensation from the Government of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China to all affected nations 
for the harm caused by its decision to hide the 
emergence and spread of COVID–19 during the 
initial weeks of the pandemic. 
Æ 
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