Vita gazette – According to the FBI, the Covid epidemic was caused by a virus leak from a Chinese laboratory. According to Christopher Wray, director of the FBI, Covid-19 could have been rendered “very likely” by a virus leak from a “Chinese government-controlled laboratory”. Wray also accused the Chinese government of obstructing US efforts to investigate the causes of the outbreak.

Christopher Wray, director of the FBI, said that Covid-19 could have been caused “very likely” by a virus leak from a “Chinese government-controlled laboratory”. The Federal Bureau of Investigation statement brings renewed tension between the United States and China and is bound to cause discussion. However, never before had the FBI gone so far on the pandemic’s origins.

Interviewed by Fox News, Wray said: “We have long been speculating that the pandemic was most likely triggered by a potential laboratory accident” in Wuhan. China has denied this view, calling the accusation defamatory. Wray’s comments come a day after the US ambassador to China asked the country to “be more honest” about the origins of Covid. Yesterday, the FBI chief stepped up the matter by saying that China “has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate” efforts to identify the source of the global pandemic. “And that’s a shame for everyone,” he added.

Wray also accused the Chinese government of obstructing US efforts to investigate the causes of the outbreak.

“The Chinese government is doing everything possible to block and black out our work. It’s a shame for everyone,” he said.

Chinese officials, however, rejected the claim, calling it a smear campaign against Beijing. Beijing also cited a study released by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2021, reaching the lab leak theory as “extremely unlikely”.

 Mao Ning, the spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said, “Some parties should stop reviving the ‘laboratory leak’ rhetoric and slander China and stop politicising research into the origin of the virus.” he said.

Wray’s comments follow a report released by the US Department of Energy earlier this week.