The COVID pandemic was likely caused by a ‘lab leak’ from a Chinese institution, another Congressional report has concluded.
The 302-page Senate report, obtained by Axios, highlights a series of previous failures at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the fact that there are no known naturally-occurring incidents of COVID-19.
‘The preponderance of information affirms the plausibility of a research-related incident that was likely unintentional resulting from failures of biosafety containment during vaccine-related research,’ the report states.
The authors said that the evidence is ‘circumstantial’, and they have been hampered by lack of cooperation from China. Yet they remain confident that the virus escaped from the Wuhan lab.