The Biden State Department confirmed that the work being conducted by an office that was looking into the origins of COVID-19 and that helped produce a fact sheet on the Wuhan Institute of Virology has ended — though it denies the current administration shut the investigation down.

“There has been incorrect reporting that the Biden-Harris Administration shut down an investigation by the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control and Verification and Compliance into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. That reporting is incorrect,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told the Washington Examiner. “In February and March of 2021, the team’s findings were briefed to AVC and Policy Planning policy staff in the new administration. With the report delivered, the work was ended. The contract continues, focused on other, arms control related work related to AVC’s portfolio.”