The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to ...

On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...

The analysis includes a closer look at high-security labs in Wuhan, China. Ratcliffe, a proponent of the lab leak theory, emphasized the importance of the CIA's involvement in the discussion ...

The US spy agency points the finger at China while acknowledging it has "low confidence" in its own conclusion, which is based on fresh analysis of intelligence about the spread of the virus.

While the CIA is now backing the often-called lab leak theory of covid-19’s origins ... based on field visits to relevant laboratories in Wuhan,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said ...

The CIA has shifted its stance on the origin of Covid-19, suggesting a lab leak ... lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is claimed to be the source of the Covid "leak" by many ...

The first known cases of COVID-19 in humans came in Wuhan in November 2019 ... China has denied the lab leak theory. The Post has contacted the CIA for comment.

The CIA now appears to slightly favor the lab-leak theory that suggests gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China may have directly contributed to the virus.

Should the lab leak theory be dismissed ... in the high-security labs in the Wuhan province, as reported by The New York Times. While the CIA now thinks it is most likely that the virus originated ...