U.S. intelligence agencies found no direct evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic stemmed from an incident at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, a report declassified on Friday said.
The four-page report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the U.S. intelligence community still could not rule out the possibility that the virus came from a laboratory, however, and had not been able to discover the origins of the pandemic.
The report said that while "extensive work" had been conducted on coronaviruses at the Wuhan institute , the agencies had not found evidence of a specific incident that could have caused the outbreak. The origins of the coronavirus pandemic have been a matter of furious debate in the United States almost since the first human cases were reported in Wuhan in late 2019.declassifying information related to the origins of theBiden said at the time of signing that he shared Congress' goal of releasing as much information as possible about the origin of COVID-19.that the U.S.
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