CIA now says Covid-19 is more likely to have originated from a lab leak The intelligence agency has said for years it couldn’t say with certainty where the pandemic originated from.

Now Langley joins the FBI and Energy Department in agreeing that a lab leak is the most likely source of the pandemic.

The CIA has changed its assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now favoring the lab leak theory. But some worry this could be an indication of politicization.

China says it's "extremely unlikely" that COVID-19 came from a lab, after the CIA said it believed , though with low confidence, that it did, rather than from natural transmission.

The Covid-19 pandemic was triggered by a leak from a Chinese lab, the CIA now believes. It is the first time the American intelligence agency has settled on a stance about the origin of the virus ...

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

The political backdrop Only one day before the CIA’s statement, the agency’s just-sworn-in director, John Ratcliffe, signalled that a new position on the origins of COVID-19 was coming.

The CIA announced on Saturday that it now considers a lab leak a more likely origin for the COVID-19 pandemic than a natural transmission, although the agency maintains "low confidence" in this ...

The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a "research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely" and notes in its statement that both scenarios – lab origin and ...

The CIA says it has “low confidence” in its assessment that a “research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely” and notes in its statement that both scenarios — lab ...

The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a "research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely" and notes in its statement that both scenarios - lab origin and ...