U.S. intelligence agencies found no direct evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic stemmed from an incident at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, a report declassified on Friday said.
·Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021.The four-page report said the intelligence agencies still could not rule out the possibility that the virus came from a laboratory, however, and had not been able to discover the origins of the pandemic.
The agencies said that while "extensive work" had been conducted on coronaviruses at the Wuhan institute , they had not found evidence of a specific incident that could have caused the outbreak.
U.S. President Joe Biden in March signed a bill declassifying information related to the origins of the pandemic.
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