GHealth News – In response to renewed U.S. allegations that Covid-19 originated from a Chinese lab, China released a white paper asserting the virus may have emerged in the United States.
The document, published by Xinhua, criticized the U.S. for politicizing the pandemic’s origins and emphasized that a joint WHO-China study found a lab leak to be “extremely unlikely.” China also accused the U.S. of ignoring international concerns and cited claims that Covid-19 may have appeared in the U.S. before the official timeline.
Meanwhile, the CIA recently assessed with “low confidence” that a lab origin in China is more likely, though it noted both lab and natural origins remain possible.