FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the Covid virus most likely leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Christopher Wray told Fox News in an interview, “The FBI has assessed for a long time that the origin of the pandemic is a possible laboratory incident in Wuhan.”
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“Here you are talking about a possible leak from a laboratory controlled by the Chinese government. I will only make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, is doing its best to sabotage and disrupt work here, which We’re doing the work that our US government and close foreign partners are doing,” he said.
“And that’s unfortunate for everyone,” he said, adding that the FBI has experts who “focus on biological threat threats, including things like novel viruses like Covid, and the concerns that they [are] in the wrong hands [of] Some bad guys, an enemy nation state, a terrorist, a criminal.”
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China is trying to block investigative work into the origins of the coronavirus, the FBI director said, following comments by the US Department of Energy that recently assessed that the Covid pandemic was caused by an accidental laboratory leak in China that was called an was included in the update. for 2021 document created by the office of US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines.
The National Intelligence Council and four other US government agencies have said there is “low confidence” that Covid originated as a result of natural transmission from an infected animal.
Fox News reported that the CIA and other government agencies are undecided.
