“That’s a day-one thing for me.” COVID-19 is’more probable’ to have originated from a Chinese lab than from animals, according to the CIA’s January assessment of the ‘existing body of evidence’.
This assertion was furthered by the White House when it unveiled a webpage that said, “LAB LEAK,” followed by, “The true origins of Covid-19.”
Wuhan is “home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research,” according to the website,
Which cites a number of assertions to support its claim on the lab leak. It also says that researchers were “sick with Covid-like symptoms in the fall of 2019.”
In a report published via the official Xinhua news agency, China responded to the US’s accusations by accusing the US of politicizing.
The issue of Covid-19’s origins and pointing out that a joint WHO-China research had shown that a lab leak was “extremely unlikely.”
