US lawmakers said on Sunday that it was still impossible to say for sure The origin of Covid-19 due to the actions of the Chinese government, Politico reports.
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“We have so few facts because of the Chinese regime,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-Democrat.) said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Sunday’s discussion followed reports late last month that the US Department of Energy had concluded that Covid-19 likely started with an accidental laboratory leak in China. The FBI also expressed a similar position.
However, other US agencies have said that the spread of Covid-19 is likely linked to the natural transmission of the virus from animals to humans. “We have so few facts that inevitably different agencies will come to different conclusions,” Himes said.
Himes is the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. His opinion was joined by the chairman of the commission, Mike Turner (Republican Party). “There’s no direct evidence, we don’t have China admitting it, we don’t have a laboratory in Wuhan handing these things over,” Turner said, referring to the city that hosts several laboratories and where the virus first spread in late 2019.
Mark Warner (Democratic Party) also blamed China’s refusal to be open and honest about Covid-19. “If this virus had originated virtually anywhere else, we would have had the world’s scientists there,” he told “Fox News Sunday.”
