Four other US agencies still judge that Covid-19 was likely the result of natural transmission. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The Energy Department made its judgment with “low confidence” in a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress, the Journal said, citing people who had read the intelligence report.
The Energy Department did not respond to a request for comment. US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Mr Jake Sullivan, said on Sunday there were a “variety of views in the intelligence community” on the pandemic’s origins. “A number of them have said they just don’t have enough information,” Mr Sullivan told CNN. Four other US agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that Covid-19 was likely the result of natural transmission, while two are undecided, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Asked to comment on the Wall Street Journal report, which was confirmed by other US media, China’s foreign ministry referred to a WHO-China report that pointed toward a natural origin for the pandemic, likely from bats, rather than a lab leak. “Certain parties should stop rehashing the ‘lab leak’ narrative, stop smearing China and stop politicising the origins-tracing issue,” foreign ministry spokesman Mao Ning said. REUTERS
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