The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the ... the infection spread to humans handling or butchering those animals at a market in Wuhan, where the first human cases appeared in late ...

"CIA assesses with low confidence that a research ... joint expert team based on field visits to relevant laboratories in Wuhan," foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said.

Such hedging notwithstanding, the announcement came as a thunderclap to China, which has long insisted that the Wuhan lab was not responsible. In response to the CIA’s new determination ...

The analysis includes a closer look at high-security labs in Wuhan, China. Ratcliffe, a proponent of the lab leak theory, emphasized the importance of the CIA's involvement in the discussion ...

He said the CIA "has assessed that the most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the world was because of a lab-related incident in Wuhan. And so we will ...

CIA analysts now believe the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic more than likely began inside China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, a position that health experts once dismissed as disinformation ...

THE CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a Wuhan lab after years of denial under Biden's administration. In a bombshell declassified ...

The “CIA continues to assess that both research ... pointing to how the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in Wuhan, where a virology lab was researching coronaviruses at the time.

He said the CIA “has assessed that the most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the world was because of a lab-related incident in Wuhan. And so we will ...

The CIA now appears to slightly favor the lab-leak theory that suggests gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China may have directly contributed to the virus.

He said the CIA “has assessed that the most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the world was because of a lab-related incident in Wuhan. And so we will ...