The United States intelligence agencies on Friday in their report said that there is no direct link of Covid-19 coming out of China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The report also did not completely deny that the virus came from a laboratory. However, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said they could not find any origin of the virus that led to pandemic.
“The Central Intelligence Agency and another agency remain unable to determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, as both (natural and lab) hypotheses rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting,” the report stated.
“We continue to have no indication that the WIV’s pre-pandemic research holdings included SARSCoV-2 or a close progenitor, nor any direct evidence that a specific research-related incident occurred involving WIV personnel before the pandemic that could have caused the COVID pandemic,” the report further stressed.
Since 2019, when the first Covid-19 cases were reported in Wuhan, the origins of the virus have been continuously a matter of discussion in US and other countries across the world.
US President Joe Biden in March this year had signed a bill that declassified any information related to the origins of the pandemic.
In February, a report from Wall Street Journal had reported that the Energy Department of US had showed “low confidence” that the Covid-19 arose from a Chinese lab. However, that report led to heated debates.
On March 20 also, four more US agencies stressed that the Covid-19 pandemic was due natural transmission, however two were still not clear.
