China complains about CIA changing its tune on COVID-19 origins theory

Beijing rejected the CIA’s findings that COVID-19 was likely leaked from a Chinese research laboratory.

“It is ‘extremely unlikely’ that the pandemic was caused by a lab leak — this is the authoritative conclusion reached by the experts of the WHO-China joint mission based on science following their field trips to the lab in Wuhan and in-depth communication with researchers,” Mao Ning, Beijing’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said during a press briefing on Monday.