Christopher Wray stated that Covid-19 most likely originated in a laboratory in Wuhan. In an exclusive interview on Fox News' Special Report, the FBI director commented on the Energy Department's reports that were released two days ago:
So as you note, Bret, the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan. Let me step back for a second. You know, the FBI has folks, agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, microbiologists, etc., who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats, which include things like novel viruses, like COVID, and the concerns that, in the wrong hands, some bad guys, a hostile nation-state, a terrorist, a criminal, the threats that those could pose.
🚨BREAKING: FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the origin of COVID was likely the result of a laboratory leak in China pic.twitter.com/ducPWduotG
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The FBI director pointed out that the Chinese communist regime is responsible for the origin and spread of Covid-19:
So here you’re talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of Americans. And that’s precisely what that capability was designed for. I should add that our work related to this continues, and there are not a whole lot of details I can share that aren’t classified. I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here. The work that we’re doing, the work that our U.S. government and close foreign partners are doing. And that’s unfortunate for everybody.
In 2021, sources close to the FBI said with "moderately confidence" that Covid-19 came from a leak at a laboratory in Wuhan.
Covid-19 killed 1,115,637 people and a total of 103,268,408 people have been infected to date, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) registry.
