New intelligence has tipped the department’s analysis on the side of the leak hypothesis, according to unnamed sources cited by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and CNN.
The newspapers insist, however, that this new analysis is published “with a low level of confidence” by the ministry, which oversees biology laboratories.
The ministry joins, according to the economic daily, the FBI to estimate that the pandemic which arose at the beginning of 2020, killing for nearly 7 million people and shaking up the march of the world for months, is the result of bad manipulation within a Chinese laboratory.
Four other American intelligence agencies believe that the Covid occurred by natural transmission, and two remain undecided, still according to the Wall Street Journal.
“At this time, no definitive response from the intelligence community has emerged on the matter,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN on Sunday.
In mid-February, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) pledged to do everything to obtain “an answer” on the origins of Covid-19, firmly denying reports that the organization has given up his investigation.
