Langley joins the FBI and Energy Department in agreeing that a lab leak is the most likely source of the pandemic.

The CIA says it has 'low confidence' in its assessment that a 'research-related origin of the Covid-19 pandemic is more likely' and notes in its statement that both scenarios - lab origin and natural origin - remain plausible.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has updated its assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now saying it is "more likely" the virus emerged from a laboratory rather than from nature, a spokesperson confirmed on Saturday,