WASHINGTON: The classified US intelligence reports sent to the White House on Tuesday cannot be concluded at the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, partly due to lack of information from China, according to US media reports.
Assessment, ordered by President Joe Biden 90 days ago, could not definitively conclude whether the virus that first appeared in China was jumping into humans through animals or escaping from very safe research facilities in Wuhan, two US officials who were familiar with problems The Washington Post was told.
They say the parts of the report can be declassified in the coming days.
The debate over the origin of the virus that has killed more than 4 million people and the economy is paralyzed throughout the world has become increasingly controversial.
When Biden assigned an investigation, he said our intelligence agents were divided into “two possible scenarios” – animals or laboratories.
Former President Donald Trump and his aides have helped trigger lab-leakage theory, using it to respond to mistakes for their administrative handling of the world’s largest outbreak in the world, and not a finger point in Beijing, which greatly denies the hypothesis.
China on Wednesday urged WHO to visit the US Military Biolab Fort Detrick, after rejecting his call for the second stage of the Covid Origins probe which focused on the Chinese laboratory last month.
“If (US) is not unpretentious accusing China, they are better prepared to receive a counterattack from China,” Fu Cong, Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Control Department, told reporters.
“If the US thinks Chinese guilty, they need to find evidence to prove that China is guilty.
You did not blame the victim because it did not provide information to burden himself.” Despite the direction of Biden that the intelligence community “doubled their efforts” to parse the origin of the origin, the 90-day reviews took them not closer to the consensus, the officials said to the Post.
Beijing has rejected calls from the US and other countries for new origin of origin after a very politicized visit by the World Health Organization Team in January also proved to be convincing, and faced criticism for lack of transparency and access.
The temporary pressure increases to evaluate the lab leak theory is more comprehensive.
At the beginning of the pandemic, the hypothesis of natural origin that the virus appears in bats then forwarded to humans, possibly through intermediaries species is widely accepted.
But over time, scientists have not found a virus in bats or other animals that match the genetic signature of SARS-COV-2.
In the face of China’s reluctance to open up to outside investigators, experts are increasingly open to consider the theory that the virus may have leaked from the laboratory conducting Coronavirus research in Wuhan, an idea that has been dismissed as a conspiracy that was reproduced by the US.
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