No definitive answers for whether COVID-19 originated in lab, says US national security adviser

No definitive answers for whether COVID-19 originated in lab, says US national security adviser

Published February 26,2023


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US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Sunday mentioned that there isn’t a “definitive answer” to the query of whether or not the virus that prompted the COVID-19 pandemic unfold from a laboratory.

Sullivan on CNN was requested to touch upon Wall Street Journal’s story saying the US Energy Department concluded that the pandemic “most likely arose from a laboratory leak.”

“There is a variety of views in the intelligence community,” mentioned Sullivan, including: “A number of them have said they just don’t have enough information.”

“President Biden has directed repeatedly every element of our intelligence community to put effort and resources behind getting to the bottom of this question. And one of the things in that Wall Street Journal report, which I can’t confirm or deny, but I will say the reference to the Department of Energy President Biden specifically requested that the national labs which are part of the Department of Energy be brought into this assessment because he wants to put every tool at use to be able to figure out what happened here,” mentioned Sullivan.

He added that the knowledge shall be shared with the Congress and American folks when there’s a definitive reply.

Source: www.anews.com.tr