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Declassified report provides no support for Covid lab-leak theory: US media

The US intelligence report declassified provides no support for the lab-leak theory on Covid-19, a US newspaper has said.

China, Coronavirus, Covid-19

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, residents line up to receive a swab for the coronavirus test during a mass testing in northwest Chinas Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (Photo: AP/PTI)

IANS Los Angeles

The US intelligence report declassified and released on October 29. provides no support for the lab-leak theory on Covid-19, a US newspaper has said.

With the release of the report, the hopes of adherents of the theory that Covid-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory are "dashed," as the report "effectively demolishes the lab-leak theory," said an opinion piece published in the paper on November 1, Xinhua news agency reported.

The full report, which follows the publication of a brief declassified summary in August, emphasizes the inability of intelligence agencies to "reach a firm conclusion about whether SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the Covid pandemic, originated from natural sources or a Chinese laboratory," it added.

 

Extensive wildlife and livestock farming, wildlife trafficking, among others, raise "the probability that initial transmission occurred along these lines," it said.

The report was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, an umbrella agency for 17 government intelligence services, including the CIA, FBI, four Cabinet agencies and the intelligence arms of the military services.

--IANS

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(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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First Published: Nov 20 2021 | 7:53 AM IST

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