China lab leak likely caused Covid-19 pandemic,says FBI chief.

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China lab leak likely caused Covid-19 pandemic,says FBI chief.

      FBI director Christopher Wray said his department previously concluded that the Covid-19 virus most likely organized from a "potential lab incident" in Wuhan,China,contradicting scientific claims that it emerged naturally like other previous outbreaks.

      The Federal Bureau of Investigation tweeted an excerpt from Wray's interview with Fox News .His remarks follow reports that an energy department classified assessment determined that the virus was the result of a lab leak, although that conclusion was given a "low confidence" rating."The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan," Wray said.The Chinese government "has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here,the work that we're doing," he added.

     In a report released by the office of the director of National Intelligence in October 2021, the US Intelligence community was divided over how the outbreak began.The report said agencies concluded that two causes were plausible: that the virus emerged in animals and spread to humans,or that it sprang from an incident at a lab in Wuhan.

    Individual agencies weren't  identified in the report.But Wray's latest comments suggest the FBI was the one Intelligence bench cited in the report that concluded with " moderate confidence" the virus likely emerged from a lab leak or accident.

China: US hurting its own credibility with this theory.

 China dismissed US suggestions that the Covid-19 may have been triggered by a virus that leaked from a Chinese laboratory.Responding to comments by FBI director Christopher Wray, foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said the involvement of the US Intelligence community was evidence enough of the " politicization of origin tracing." By rehashing the lab-leak theory, the US will not succeed in discrediting China, and instead,it will only hurt its own credibility," Mao said."We urge the US to respect science and facts…stop turning origin tracing into something about politics and intelligence,and stop disrupting social solidarity and origins cooperation," she said.