The intelligence agency says it had a “low confidence” in its new finding, but this is further than it has ever gone in pinpointing the origin of the virus that killed millions. worldwide

The CIA has shifted its assessment on the origins of COVID-19, now favoring the lab leak theory. This change, announced by new CIA Director John Ratcliffe, is based on available evidence about conditions in Wuhan labs,

The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is "more likely" to have emerged from a lab rather than from nature, an agency spokesperson said on Saturday. The agency had for years said it could not conclude whether COVID-19 was the result of a lab incident or it originated in nature.