Five years on from the pandemic, China's Wuhan city in central Hubei province is buzzing with life, a far cry from the quiet streets and crowded hospitals during the world's first Covid-19 lockdown on January 23,
With Donald Trump now back in the White House, the intelligence agency in the United States has shared the current thinking on the pandemic.
China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission. “It
The CIA has concluded that Covid-19 probably began as a leak from a laboratory in China in a new assessment of the origins of the pandemic that killed millions of people.
The CIA’s new view aligns the agency with the FBI and the Department of Energy. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Beijing:China urged the United States to stop politicising and weaponising origins tracing of the COVID 19 pandemic, and stop scapegoating others, a
The finding, released Saturday on the orders of President Donald Trump's pick to lead the agency, is not the result of new intelligence.
China said Monday it was "extremely unlikely" Covid-19 came from a laboratory, after the US Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] said it believed the virus had more likely come from a lab rather than natural transmission.
In a fresh analysis, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said it believes that the Covid-19 virus ‘more likely’ leaked from a Chinese lab than transmitted by animals. The US intelligence agency has released the ’low confidence’ assessment under Trump-appointed CIA director John Ratcliffe,
The CIA has revised its stance on the origins of Covid-19, stating the virus is 'more likely' to have leaked from a Chinese lab rather than originating from animals.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has announced that the origin of the coronavirus is unlikely to be animal-based and was likely the result of a lab leak in China. John Ratcliffe, the new head of the CIA, who assumed office on Thursday, has prioritized the investigation into the origins of the coronavirus as a key focus of his tenure.