In its initial remarks on the inquiry into the COVID-19 origins, the Federal Bureau of Investigation stated that the virus was probably the outcome of a lab accident in Wuhan, China. According to Christopher Wray, director of the FBI, “the Bureau has judged that the roots of the pandemic are most likely a probable lab mishap in Wuhan for quite some time now.”
He did acknowledge that it has been challenging to collaborate with the Chinese government
Wray stated in the interview that the FBI has a group of specialists who are focused on the possibility of biological threats getting into the “wrong hands.” The majority of the data, Wray continued, is classified, so not much can be spoken about it. He did acknowledge that it has been challenging to collaborate with the Chinese government on the pandemic’s origin investigation.
“You’re talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of Americans,” Wray said of the coronavirus, “and that’s precisely what that capability was designed for.” “I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here,” the bureau director said. “The work that our US government and close foreign partners are doing. And that’s unfortunate for everybody.”
The history of COVID-19 has caused disagreement within the US government
The COVID-19 virus was allegedly caused by a lab leak, according to a study that was released just a few days after the US energy department made that assertion in a secret and revised document. The department nevertheless rated its level of trust in its evaluation as “poor.” Afterwards, China rejected the report, claiming that “tracing the origins of SARS-CoV-2 is about science and should not be politicised.”
The history of Covid-19 has caused disagreement within the US government. The National Intelligence Council and four other unnamed agencies estimate that the first Covid-19 infection “was most likely originated by natural exposure to an animal afflicted with it or a close progenitor virus,” according to a 2021 report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.