Christopher Wray accuses the Chinese government of 'doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate' efforts by the US and others to learn more about the pandemic's origins.
The director of the FBI has said the agency believes COVID-19"most likely" came from a lab leak in China.are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan," Christopher Wray told Fox News.
Mr Wray said he could not share many details of the agency's assessment because they were classified. He accused the Chinese government of"doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate" efforts by the US and others to learn more about the pandemic's origins. His remarks come after the Wall Street Journal reported that the US Energy Department assessed with low confidence that the pandemicFour other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still believe the pandemic was likely the result of natural transmission, while two are undecided.
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