COVID Lab Leak Revelations: What We Know and What We Don't

A new report has revealed that intelligence analysts at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) concluded that COVID-19 most likely came from a Chinese laboratory, making it the second U.S. government agency to adopt such a position on the emergence of the pandemic.

On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal wrote, citing sources who have read the new classified document, that the department had found with "low confidence" that the deadly virus could have emerged from a mishap at a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

The DOE was previously undecided on how the global pandemic began. The updated report was said to have been issued to the White House and members of Congress, in light of new intelligence and evidence gathering.

Members of the U.S. intelligence community have come to different conclusions about the origins of the virus. A prior intelligence assessment of the origins of COVID-19, based on information up to the end of August 2021, gave three competing views on the matter.