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

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 CIA now assesses the virus that causes Covid-19 more likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China, rather than occurring naturally, according to a statement from the agency Saturday, ...

A NEW bat coronavirus has been discovered at the same Chinese lab at the centre of the Covid lab leak theory storm. Scientists have raised fears that this new virus – which shares ...

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

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.

The US spy agency points the finger at China while acknowledging it has "low confidence" in its own conclusion, which is based on fresh analysis of intelligence about the spread of the virus.

The virus that started the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab in China, the CIA said in a new assessment, though it has no conclusive evidence.

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 on Saturday offered a new assessment on the origin of the Covid outbreak, saying the coronavirus is "more likely" to ...

Not a speck of evidence has emerged showing that the COVID virus leaked from a Chinese lab. So why does a just-released CIA statement claim that it did? Blame politics.