It has been around for almost as long as the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus: the theory that the pathogen originated in a laboratory. Now the US Department of Energy has put forward this assumption again. A secret report from the Secret Service shows that the ministry assumes a possible laboratory error.
The Department of Energy now agrees with the FBI’s assessment that the virus likely spread through a malfunction in a Chinese lab. However, the ministry takes this with only a “low” degree of certainty, as the “Wall Street Journal” reported, citing unnamed sources.
Biden advisor: ‘No definitive answer yet’
US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday he could not confirm or deny the report. “At the moment there is no definitive answer from the Secret Services to this question,” Sullivan stressed, referring to the origin of the virus. “Some parts of the intelligence community have jumped to conclusions on the one hand, others have said they just don’t have enough information to be sure.”
Some US authorities remain of the opinion that the virus was likely transmitted naturally, others are undecided. The Department of Energy’s conclusion is based on new evidence, according to the report. However, it remained unclear what these findings were. The ministry was previously undecided in its assessment, according to the Wall Street Journal. Like other U.S. departments, the Department has its own Intelligence and Counterintelligence Bureau, which is part of the U.S. intelligence community. These trace the origin of the coronavirus.
In 2021, after several months of close scrutiny, there was no agreement among US intelligence agencies on the origin of the coronavirus. Whether the virus came from a laboratory or jumped from an animal to humans remains to be seen, according to a report published at the time in which the intelligence services of various authorities made their assessments. China has always denied allegations of a possible lab accident.
Source: Krone
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