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Covid-19 virus leaked out of a laboratory in China, says report by US agency

According to a US Energy Department report, the Covid-19 virus leaked out of a laboratory in China

The report — a classified intelligence report was recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress, the Wall Street Journal reported.

It demonstrates how different intelligence agencies arrived at disparate conclusions about the pandemic’s origin.

According to people who have read the classified report, the Energy Department made its judgement with “low confidence,” the WSJ reported.

Several agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), support the lab leak claim.

With “moderate confidence,” the agency concluded in 2021 that the pandemic was most likely the result of a lab leak, and it still believes this.

the media report said that four other agencies, as well as a national intelligence panel, believe it was most likely the result of a natural transmission, and two are undecided.

The Energy Department “continues to support the thorough, careful, and objective work of our intelligence professionals in investigating the origins of Covid-19, as directed by the President,” a spokesperson was quoted as saying.

The report said that the agency has declined to discuss the specifics of its assessment.

“Kudos to those who are willing to set aside their preconceptions and objectively re-examine what we know and don’t know about Covid origins,” said David Relman, a Stanford University microbiologist, who welcomed word of the updated findings.

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“My plea is that we not accept an incomplete answer or give up because of political expediency,” Relman said.

According to the US 2021 intelligence report, the Covid-19 virus first circulated in Wuhan, China, no later than November 2019.

The origins of Covid-19 remain unknown more than two years after the pandemic.

It’s been a political and scientific debate, with scientists and politicians all over the world arguing that the coronavirus either jumped into people from bats or was leaked from a laboratory.

China, on its part, has placed limits on investigations by the World Health Organization.

The country has argued that the virus lab leak theory is false and that it originated outside of China.

 

 

 

 

 

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