The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has given his clearest assessment yet that COVID-19 “most likely” came from a lab leak in Wuhan.
Mr Wray’s revelations came alongside a scathing rebuke of China’s controversial handling of the initial stages of the pandemic and the subsequent international inquiry.
which probed the origins of COVID-19, and uncovered evidence the lab leak theory was a real possibility. Mr Wray said the FBI was continuing its investigation into origins of the disease which “killed millions of Americans” as he spruiked the Bureau’s forensic expertise targeting massive biological threats.
“And the concerns that they're in the wrong hands some bad guys, a hostile nation state, a terrorist, a criminal, the threats that those could pose.
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