How did Covid 19 originate? A new report from the United States reduces confidence in the hypothesis that most bothers China

The US Department of Energy has joined other federal agencies such as the FBI in concluding that COVID-19 was “most likely” caused by a leak in a Chinese laboratoryThe Wall Street Journal reported this Sunday.

Citing “a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of the (US) Congress,” the paper notes that Four other US departments still believe the coronavirus outbreak is likely the result of natural transmission, while two others remain undecided.

The New York newspaper points out that the conclusion of the Ministry of Energy is the result of reading new intelligence and considers this discovery significant because this agency oversees a network of 17 US national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research.

However, the Journal points out that the Department of Energy makes this claim s “low trust”while the FBI, when it came to the same conclusion in 2021, rated its confidence level as “moderately”.

Depending on the quality of the information and its origin, the US intelligence services usually assign three levels of confidence to their conclusions: high, moderate and low.

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan declined to confirm or deny the veracity of the information published by The Wall Street Journal.