FBI Director Christopher Wray said the FBI believes Covid-19 "

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This is the first public confirmation of the FBI's secret conclusion on how the pandemic virus came to be.. China denied leaking information from the Wuhan lab, calling the accusation slander.

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Ray's comments come a day after the US ambassador to China urged the country to "

In an interview on Tuesday, Ray said China was " "

Some research suggests the virus jumped from animals to humans in Wuhan, China, possibly at an urban seafood and wildlife market.

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The market is a 40-minute drive from the world's leading virus laboratory Wuhan Institute of Virology, which conducted the study of coronaviruses.

Other U.S. government agencies have come to differing conclusions from the FBI, with varying degrees of confidence in their findings.. U.S. media reported on Sunday that the U.S. Department of Energy assessed with " The agency previously said it had not determined how the virus began..

On Monday, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said U.S. President Joe Biden is supporting "

But he added that the US still does not have a clear consensus on what happened.. " “If we have something ready to convey to the American people and Congress, we will do it”.

An unclassified report released by the U.S. Chief Intelligence Officer in October 2021 said that four U.S. intelligence agencies assessed with a " For months, at the height of the pandemic, the lab leak hypothesis was widely dismissed as a conspiracy theory.. Health officials have publicly dismissed the idea that the coronavirus could have been created in a lab before fleeing.

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A World Health Organization (WHO) investigation called the lab leak theory " Covid-19 first emerged in late 2019 and has since killed nearly seven million people..