German spy agency 'believed Covid likely started in lab'

Responding to previous claims of a leak, China said the cause "should be determined by scientists" - and pointed to a World Health Organization investigation which found the lab-leak theory was "extremely unlikely". The intelligence service had indications that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been carrying out experiments where viruses are modified to become more transmissible to humans for research, they say. Two German newspapers say they have uncovered details of an assessment carried out by spy agency BND in 2020 but never published. Germany's foreign intelligence service believed...