At the time, WHO said a lab leak was “extremely unlikely ... nor was there any indication that the virus had been spreading before December 2019 anywhere outside of China. “Until more scientific data ...

A group of experts investigating Covid origins on behalf of the World Health Organization revealed they still aren't sure how ...

In a January 24 interview with the far-right-wing outlet Breitbart News, newly appointed CIA director John Ratcliffe stated that assessing intelligen ...

Five years after the first COVID-19 deaths were reported in Wuhan, China, a new assessment by the CIA concludes the virus was “more likely” to have leaked from a Chinese laboratory than spread ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The CIA’s claim that the Covid-19 virus probably emerged from a Chinese laboratory leak has revived a ...

Beijing dismissed the CIA's claim that COVID-19 likely originated from a lab, calling it “extremely unlikely.” The Chinese government pointed to findings from the China-WHO joint expert team ...

The CIA investigated the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, and determined, with low confidence, the origin was likely a lab leak in China.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., panned the liberal press on Saturday after the newly released CIA assessment that the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China.

“Now, the most important thing is to make China pay for unleashing a plague on the world,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a veteran advocate of the lab-leak theory, told Politico.

In 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reached a conclusion similar to the CIA’s new one: that a lab leak was responsible for the pandemic, though it could also say so only with “low ...

The CIA, now under new management, has declared that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid “most likely” originated and then leaked from a lab at Wuhan in Communist China. The Central Intelligence ...

China denies lab leak theory of COVID-19 origins amid CIA's low-confidence assessment. Scientists and the public debate continues over the virus's origins and China's transparency.