Washington (USA), Jan 25 (LaPresse/AP) – The CIA believes the virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic probably came from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at China while acknowledging that the spy agency has ‘low confidence’ in its conclusions. The finding is not the result of new information and the report was completed at the behest of the Biden administration and former CIA director William Burns. It was declassified and released on Saturday at the behest of President Donald Trump. The result suggests that the agency believes the totality of the evidence makes a laboratory origin more likely than a natural origin. But the agency's assessment assigns a low degree of confidence to this conclusion, suggesting that the evidence is deficient, inconclusive or contradictory.
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