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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray believes COVID-19 is “highly likely” to originate. “Chinese Government Laboratory”
“The FBI has long assessed the source of the outbreak. And it’s highly likely to be a lab accident,” he told Fox News.
This marks the FBI’s first public acknowledgment of the origin of COVID. Where exactly did it come from?
However, the Chinese government has always denied that COVID came from a leak in a lab in Wuhan, saying it was allegations and slander.
Ray’s comments came after the US ambassador to China urged China to be more “honest” about the source of the coronavirus.
In the interview, Ray noted that China “is making great efforts to intervene and deter” the early identification efforts of COVID-19. that spread throughout the world
“That’s unfortunate for all of us,” he said.
Several studies have shown that A new strain of coronavirus has developed so far that it can spread from animals to humans in Wuhan. It is possible that the first outbreak was a seafood and wildlife market in Wuhan.
this Huanan market Located only a 40-minute drive from the world’s leading virology laboratory, the Wuhan Institute of Virology. by this institute at that time Researching on the coronavirus
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Christopher Ray believes that COVID-19 is “highly likely” to originate from “Chinese Government Laboratory”
other US government agencies Summary of the origin of COVID-19 on a different level of confidence than the FBI’s
while the US media Reported last weekend that The U.S. Energy Agency assessed with “low certainty” that the coronavirus leaked from a Chinese lab. Although it had previously stated that it was uncertain where the virus originated from.
On Monday (March 27), White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said President Joe US Biden supports ‘all government efforts’ to find the source of COVID
But he pointed to the lack of consensus in the United States to indicate that What exactly happened?
“We haven’t reached that point yet… If we have information that should be given to the American people and Congress. We will take action immediately.”
An unofficial FBI report in October 2021 said four U.S. intelligence agencies assessed with “very little certainty” that the virus originated from infected animals. or similar virus
In the months following the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, Scientists ruled out the possibility that Covid leaked from Chinese lab pointing out that it was just a conspiracy theory While senior health officials rejected the idea that COVID was created in a laboratory. before leaking out
The World Health Organization (WHO) has investigated the laboratory theory that But after a wave of criticism over the investigation, the WHO director-general said: “All theories are open. to study further”
COVID-19 emerged in late 2019 and has led to the deaths of nearly 7 million people worldwide.