For some time now, the FBI has believed that the origin of the pandemic is likely linked to a laboratory incident in Wuhan, Mr. Wray said in an interview with Fox News.
This comment comes a few days after a similar hypothesis was put forward by the US Department of Energy.
New intelligence had shifted the Department’s analysis towards the leak hypothesis, according to anonymous sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and CNN. (…)
In this interview, Christopher Wray also accused China of trying to block the investigation conducted by the United States into the causes of the pandemic, which emerged in early 2020, killing nearly 7 million people and disrupting the world for months.
The Chinese government (…) has done its best to try to thwart and muddy the work we are doing, the work that our American government and our close foreign partners are doing, the FBI director said.
And it’s unfortunate for everyone.
Beijing vigorously contests these claims.
For the scientific community, it is crucial to determine the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic in order to better prevent and combat a future epidemic.