No direct proof Covid got here from China's Wuhan lab: US intelligence report | World News

US intelligence businesses discovered no direct proof that the Covid-19 pandemic stemmed from an incident at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, a report declassified on Friday mentioned.

The four-page report mentioned the intelligence businesses nonetheless couldn't rule out the likelihood that the virus got here from a laboratory, nonetheless, and had not been in a position to uncover the origins of the pandemic.

"The Central Intelligence Company and one other company stay unable to find out the exact origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, as each (pure and lab) hypotheses depend on important assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting," the report mentioned.

The businesses mentioned that whereas "intensive work" had been carried out on coronaviruses on the Wuhan institute (WIV), they'd not discovered proof of a particular incident that would have brought on the outbreak.

"We proceed to don't have any indication that the WIV's pre-pandemic analysis holdings included SARSCoV-2 or an in depth progenitor, nor any direct proof that a particular research-related incident occurred involving WIV personnel earlier than the pandemic that would have brought on the Covid pandemic," the report mentioned.