Origin of COVID-19 | U.S. intelligence agencies fail to reach conclusion
The Hindu
In May, U.S. President Joe Biden asked U.S. intelligence agencies to assess the data and produce a report that “could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion” on the origins of coronavirus.
The U.S. intelligence community has failed to reach any firm conclusion on the exact origin of and is split on whether it leaked from a lab in China or emerged in nature, even though it does not believe the virus was developed as a biological weapon, according to results of a detailed review ordered by President Joe Biden. The Director of National Intelligence in a report on Friday said SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, probably emerged and infected humans through an initial small-scale exposure that occurred no later than November 2019 with the first known cluster of COVID-19 cases arising in Wuhan, China in December 2019. However, there was no unanimity among the intelligence community (IC) on the origins of the coronavirus.More Related News