The CIA "continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible,” the agency wrote in a statement about its new assessment.

Covid DID Leak From Lab — Confirms CIA After Years Of Probes Into Chinese Research Facilities Including Wuhan Source: MEGA The CIA has acknowledged that it now favors the lab leak theory.

CIA analysts now believe the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic more than likely began inside China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, a position that health experts once dismissed as disinformation ...

Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 virus make a visit on ...

CIA says COVID ‘more likely’ came from Wuhan, China lab leak Published: Jan. 25, 2025, 8:41 p.m. Workers line up to get tested for COVID-19 at the Foxconn factory in Wuhan in central China's ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at China even while ...

He said the CIA "has assessed that the most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the world was because of a lab-related incident in Wuhan.

The news comes after the CIA announced over the weekend that COVID-19 most likely originated from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2020.

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment that points the finger at China even while acknowledging ...

Such hedging notwithstanding, the announcement came as a thunderclap to China, which has long insisted that the Wuhan lab was not responsible. In response to the CIA’s new determination, the ...