Mr Wray's remarks follow reports that a classified assessment determined that the virus was the result of a lab leak. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON – The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s director Christopher Wray said that the Covid-19 virus most likely originated from a “potential lab incident” in Wuhan, China, contradicting scientific claims that it emerged naturally like other previous outbreaks.
“The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” Mr Wray said. The Chinese government “has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we’re doing,” he added. Asked about the Energy Department report at a press briefing on Monday, Mao Ning, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, said a joint World Health Organisation-China mission already found the lab leak theory “extremely unlikely.”
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