FBI director says China laboratory leak was likely COVID source | Coronavirus pandemic News [Video]

FBI Director Christopher Wray says his agency has assessed that a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, was the likely cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wray’s comments follow a Wall Street Journal report on Sunday that the US Energy Department had assessed with low confidence the pandemic resulted from an unintended lab leak in China.

“The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” Wray told Fox News on Tuesday.

Four other US agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, believe that the pandemic was likely the result of natural transmission, and two are undecided, the Journal reported.

White House national security spokesman John Kirby also said on Monday that the US government had not reached a definitive conclusion and consensus on the pandemic’s origins.

Wray also told Fox News that China had thwarted efforts to identifythe origin of the virus. But investigations were still ongoing, …