In mid-February, the WHO director-general vowed to do his best to get an answer about the origins of COVID-19, denying reports that the organization had abandoned its investigation.
The US Department of Energy has assessed that an accidental leak from a laboratory in China may have caused the spread of Covid-19, according to new findings reported by the media Sunday, although the White House stressed that intelligence agencies remain divided on the issue.
The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and CNN quoted unnamed sources as saying that new intelligence information obtained by the ministry suggests that the virus leaked from a laboratory.
But this media stressed that this new information was published “with a low level of confidence” from the ministry that oversees biological laboratories.
According to the daily economic newspaper, the ministry agrees with the FBI in estimating that the pandemic that appeared in early 2020 and has since claimed seven million people and turned life upside down for months is the result of an accidental leak from a laboratory in China.
On the other hand, four other US intelligence agencies have expressed their belief that Covid resulted from natural transmission, while two other agencies have not yet decided their decision in this regard, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“So far, there has been no definitive answer from the intelligence agencies on this matter,” White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN on Sunday.
In mid-February, the WHO director-general vowed to do his best to get an answer about the origins of COVID-19, denying reports that the organization had abandoned its investigation.
The scientific community considers it important to know the origins of this pandemic in order to be able to fight it more effectively or even avoid a future pandemic.
