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CIA says lab leak most likely source of Covid outbreak

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CIA releases new assessment on origin of Covid pandemic.

New director John Ratcliffe has long favoured lab leak theory, claiming Covid most likely came from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology .

But the new assessment is based on "low confidence" which means intelligence supporting it is deficient, inconclusive or contradictory.

Some support a "natural origin" theory, which argues virus spread naturally from animals.

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