On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

The CIA admits it has "low confidence" in its conclusion and says both a natural origin and a research-related incident are still possible. HealthDay News — After years of speculation, the CIA has ...

The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to ...

The new assessment came after John Ratcliffe was confirmed on Thursday as the CIA ... of the lab-leak hypothesis highlight that the earliest known Covid-19 cases emerged in Wuhan, China ...

China’s government says ... Beijing has said claims that a laboratory leak likely caused the pandemic have no credibility. In ...

after the CIA said it believed the virus had more likely come from a lab rather than natural transmission. "The conclusion that a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely was reached by the China-WHO ...

China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission.

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 ...

NEW YORK – The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is "more likely" to have emerged from a lab rather than from nature, an agency spokesperson said on Saturday.

Advertisement Previously, the CIA has said it was unclear whether the Covid pandemic emerged from human exposure to an infected animal or from a research lab in Wuhan, China. A source familiar ...

The CIA now believes the COVID-19 pandemic is "more likely" to have originated from a laboratory leak in China than from animals. It follows the release of new analysis that began under the Biden ...