FBI Director Christopher Wray
FBI Director Christopher Wray has said the bureau believes COVID-19 most likely originated in a Chinese government-controlled lab.
In a television interview, the FBI said the agency has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident.
It is the first public confirmation of the FBI's classified judgement of how the pandemic virus emerged.
Many scientists point out there is no evidence that it leaked from a lab.
Other US government agencies have drawn differing conclusions to the FBI's.
Some of them have said - but with a low level of certainty - that the virus did not start in a lab but instead jumped from animals to humans.
The White House has said there is no consensus across the US government on the origins.
A joint China-World Health Organization investigation in 2021 called the lab leak theory "extremely unlikely".
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