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CIA believes Covid-19 likely caused by lab leak, NBC News reports

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The CIA has shifted its stance about the origin of the virus that causes Covid-19.

The intelligence agency now believes that the coronavirus escaped from a Chinese lab.

The move comes one day after John Radcliffe , the new director of the CIA , was confirmed.

The CIA was also unsure at the time of the initial report, but now favors a laboratory origin.