Washington: US intelligence agent said on Friday they might not be able to identify the origin of Covid-19, because they released a more detailed new version of their reviews whether Coronavirus comes from animal transmission to humans or leaking from a laboratory.
The office of the US National Intelligence Director (Odni) said in the declassification report that the natural origin and leak leak are both a reasonable hypothesis for how SARS-COV-2 is infected with humans.
But he said analysts do not agree to where more likely or whether the definitive assessment can be done at all.
The report also rejected the suggestion that Coronavirus originated as Bioweapon, said supporters of this theory “did not have direct access to the Wuhan Virology Institute” and had been accused of spreading disinformation.
The report issued on Friday is the update of the 90-day reviews released by President Joe Biden Administration in August, in the midst of intense political fight on how much to blame China for the impact of global pandemics than the government that might not be quite fast.
to protect citizens.
China responded on Friday by criticizing the report.
“The US trip rely on its intelligence apparatus instead of scientists to track the origin of Covid-19 is a complete political joke,” Liu Pengyu, spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, said in an email statement.
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it will only ruin the origin study and hinder the global effort to find a virus source,” said the statement.
Former President of the Republic of Donald Trump – who lost his offer for re-election as a deadly pandemic destroyed the US economy – and many of his supporters referred to Covid-19 as “Chinese virus.” Some US spy agents loved the explanation that the virus came from nature.
But there is little strengthening and over the past few months the virus has spread widely and naturally among wild animals.
Odni’s report said four US spy agents and multi-agency bodies have “low self-confidence” originating from infected animals or related viruses.
But one agent said it had a “moderate belief” that the first human covid-19 infection which was likely to be the result of laboratory accidents, might involve experiments or handling animals by the Wuhan Virology Institute.
The US spy agent believes that they will not be able to produce a more definite explanation for the origin of Covid-19 without new information that shows that the virus takes a certain path of animals to humans or that the Wuhan laboratory handles viruses or related viruses before Covid-19 appears .
The report said US agents and the global scientific community did not have “clinical samples or complete understanding of epidemiological data from the earliest Covid-19 case” and said they could review this unconvincing findings if more surface proof.
China has faced international criticism because it failed to work more fully in the investigation of Covid origins.
The embassy statement also rejected the criticism.
“We have supported science-based efforts on the search for origins, and will continue to be engaged actively.
That said, we firmly opposed efforts to politicize this problem,” he said.
US spy agents say the origin of Covid-19 may never be known
