The CIA has indicated, albeit with low confidence, that the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely to have originated from a laboratory leak than as a natural occurrence. This assessment follows a series of evaluations by various U.S. intelligence agencies, including the FBI and the Department of Energy, which support the lab leak theory. China has strongly refuted this assessment, claiming it is a result of political manipulation and emphasizing the importance of a scientific approach to understanding the virus's origins.
The CIA remains cautious, stating it has low confidence in its assessment that COVID-19 likely originated from a lab leak, while still considering both scenarios plausible.
China's embassy decried the CIA's assessment as politically manipulative, asserting that scientific inquiry, not political judgment, should determine the virus's origins.
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