Various U.S. intelligence agencies have launched investigations into the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, often reaching “low confidence” results.

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

China says it's "extremely unlikely" that COVID-19​ came from a lab, after the CIA said it believed​, though with low confidence, that it did, rather than from natural transmission.

Five years on from the pandemic, China's Wuhan city in central Hubei province is buzzing with life, a far cry from the quiet streets and crowded hospitals during the world's first Covid-19 lockdown on January 23,

A bombshell new report from the CIA says the agency is now backing the COVID-19 “lab leak” theory - but admits “low confidence” in the finding. The distinction was made in a report released Saturday after being declassified by President Donald Trump. New CIA director John Ratcliffe released the reprot.

With Donald Trump now back in the White House, the intelligence agency in the United States has shared the current thinking on the pandemic.

China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission. “It

The CIA has concluded that Covid-19 probably began as a leak from a laboratory in China in a new assessment of the origins of the pandemic that killed millions of people.

The CIA’s new view aligns the agency with the FBI and the Department of Energy. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Beijing:China urged the United States to stop politicising and weaponising origins tracing of the COVID 19 pandemic, and stop scapegoating others, a

The finding, released Saturday on the orders of President Donald Trump's pick to lead the agency, is not the result of new intelligence.

The CIA has revised its stance on the origins of Covid-19, stating the virus is 'more likely' to have leaked from a Chinese lab rather than originating from animals.