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Intelligence Report Declassified, No Direct Evidence of Wuhan Institute as COVID-19 Origin

A recent US intelligence report declassified on Friday found no direct evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic originated from an incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

24 June 2023 · 20:29 UTC

The report stated that while extensive work had been conducted on coronaviruses at the institute, no evidence of a specific incident that could have caused the outbreak was found.

The US intelligence community still cannot rule out the possibility that the virus came from a laboratory, but the origins of the pandemic remain a matter of debate.

The report did not specify which agencies held which views on the origin of the pandemic.