FBI chief says that Covid-19 is likely to have been leaked in a China lab.

FBI Director Christopher Wray has added that the department believes that Covid-19 originated in a lab controlled by the Chinese government.

 

Fox News further stated that the FBI has determined from extensive research that the origin of the pandemic Covid19 is most likely a Chinese lab event."

 

This is the first public confirmation of the FBI's determination of how the pandemic originated and how it emerged in all our world.

 

Many scientists say there is no evidence that Covid-19 leaked from a Chinese lab. And other US government agencies have drawn different conclusions about the FBI's statement.

 

Some of them have stated, in no uncertain terms, that the virus did not originate in a lab but instead was transmitted from animals to humans.

The White House has said that there is no consensus in the US government about this.

 

A joint China-World Health Organization (WHO) investigation in 2021 called the lab leak theory "highly unlikely".

 

Mr. Ray's comments came a day after the US ambassador to China called for the country to be "more honest" about the origins of Covid. In his interview on Tuesday, Mr. Ray said China was doing its best to "frustrate and obfuscate" efforts to identify the source of the global pandemic.

 

He said details of the agency's investigation were classified but the FBI had a team of experts focusing on biological threats.

 

In response, Beijing accused Washington of political manipulation.

 

"We don't trust them to talk about the conclusions they have reached," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said.

 

Some studies suggest that the virus may have passed from animals to humans in Wuhan, China, possibly at the city's seafood and wildlife markets. The market is close to the world's leading virus laboratory, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which conducted research on the coronavirus.

 

A few days ago, the US Department of Energy said it had found that the virus was likely the result of a lab leak in Wuhan but could only reach that conclusion with "low confidence".

 

In response, many scientists who have studied the virus said this week that there was no new scientific evidence pointing to a lab leak.

 

Professor David Robertson, head of viral genomics and bioinformatics at the University of Glasgow, said the virus is still more likely to be natural.

 

"Evidence has accumulated (from what we know about the biology of the virus, the nearby mutations circulating in bats and the locations of the earliest human cases) that point strongly toward a natural source centered on the Huanan market in the city of Wuhan," he said. Indicate."

 

On Monday, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said US President Joe Biden supports a "whole-of-government effort" to find out how Covid started.

 

"We're not there yet," he said. "If there's something we're willing to tell the American people and Congress, we'll do it."

 

Tensions in bilateral relations between the US and China have increased in the wake of the recent spy balloon saga.

 

A bipartisan panel of US lawmakers began a series of hearings this week on the "existential" threat from the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

 

The first session of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party focused on issues such as human rights and the dependence of the U.S. economy on Chinese manufacturing.

Research is ongoing worldwide on how the virus has been transmitted from animals to humans.

It remains a challenge for scientists to understand the evolution of the virus and its extreme threat nature.