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The CORONAVIRUS pandemic was most likely caused by a "possible lab incident" in Wuhan, China, FBI DIRECTOR Christopher Wray told Fox News.

We are talking about "a possible leak from a laboratory controlled by the Chinese authorities," he said.

Ray said the Chinese government is "doing everything it can" to thwart U.S. and partner efforts to establish the cause of the pandemic. “And this is unfortunate for everyone,” said the director of the FBI.

Ray's statement came shortly after the publication of The Wall Street Journal. The publication, referring to the report of the US Department of Energy, reported on the conclusions of the department, according to which the covid-19 pandemic was of laboratory origin. Previously, a similar theory was proposed to be considered as “plausible” by the national laboratory of the US government, it was also supported by the FBI, but national intelligence expressed doubts about this version. According to the WSJ, four more intelligence agencies support the natural origin of the virus, two are undecided.

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According to a US National Intelligence report from October 2021, at that time, US intelligence agencies were not inclined to think that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was deliberately developed as a biological weapon.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning, commenting on the WSJ article, called for an end to discrediting Beijing and politicizing the issue of the origin of the coronavirus. The diplomat recalled that a joint scientific group of the World HEALTH Organization (WHO) came to the conclusion that such an origin of the coronavirus is unlikely.

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WHO was going to investigate the origin of COVID in several stages. The first one took place in January 2021. As part of the second phase, experts were going to check the laboratories in Wuhan, but its implementation was stalled due to China's refusal to cooperate. On February 15, WHO announced that it was suspending the second phase of the investigation.