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.

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 now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at China even ...

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 first known cases of COVID-19 in humans came in Wuhan in November 2019. Some 1.2 million Americans were died in the COVID-19 pandemic, per data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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.

‘CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the Covid-19 pandemic remain plausible.’ The news emerged a day after John Radcliffe, the new director of ...

The CIA "continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible,” the agency wrote in a statement about its new assessment.

“CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting,” an agency spokesman said.

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at China even while ...

WASHINGTON — The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at ...