CIA says Covid ‘more likely’ to have leaked from lab ...Middle East

The new assessment came after John Ratcliffe was confirmed Thursday as the CIA director under the second White House administration of Donald Trump.

“The agency is going to get off the sidelines,“ Ratcliffe -- who believes Covid-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology -- told right-wing outlet Breitbart.

The agency had not previously made any determination on whether Covid had been unleashed by a laboratory mishap or spilled over from animals.

A US official told AFP the shift was based on a new analysis of existing intelligence ordered by previous CIA director William Burns, which was completed before Ratcliffe’s arrival this week.

Proponents of the lab-leak hypothesis highlight that the earliest known Covid-19 cases emerged in Wuhan, China -- a major coronavirus research hub -- roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) from the nearest bat populations carrying similar SARS-like viruses.

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