Declassified intelligence report said both natural origin and lab leak were plausible hypotheses, but truth may never be known
A declassified U.S. intelligence report saying it was plausible that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in a laboratory is unscientific and has no credibility, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in a statement on Sunday.
“The tracing of the origins of the novel coronavirus is a serious and complex issue that should and can only be researched through the co-operation of global scientists,” he said. A joint study by China and the World Health Organization published this year all but ruled out the theory that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory, saying that the most likely hypothesis was that it infected humans naturally, probably via the wildlife trade.
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