The head of the US intelligence department said on Friday that there is no evidence that the Kovid-19 virus was created in the Chinese government’s Wuhan research laboratory.

In a public report, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said they have no information to support recent claims that three scientists at the lab were the first to be infected with COVID-19 and that they may have infected themselves. You have created a virus.

Based on intelligence gathered by various member agencies of the US Intelligence Community (IC), the ODNI report states that some scientists at the Wuhan lab had genetically engineered a coronavirus similar to that of Covid-19.

But the US has “no information” indicating that they have introduced the specific Covid-9 virus, known as SARS-CoV-2, or any “close ancestor, or a backbone virus that is closely related”. —but has done such a thing—enough is the source of the pestilence.”

The report, made for Congress and accompanied by an unpublished classified annex, comes three months after lawmakers demanded a full explanation of US intelligence on the origins of the pandemic that erupted in late 2019.

Some lawmakers allege the virus was created from so-called gain-of-function genetic engineering research in Wuhan, and that Beijing hid evidence to show it was a man-made disease.

Reiterating findings announced in March, the ODNI report said “almost all” of its constituent agencies, including the NSA, CIA and FBI, assess that COVID-19 was not genetically engineered and that most Also believe it was not lab-optimized. ,

But like the March ODNI report, it did not rule out the possibility that the Wuhan lab was testing for COVID-19 at the time and that it may have leaked due to negligence.

The ODNI said the intelligence community is divided over whether the pandemic resulted from a natural occurrence of the virus – perhaps transferred from animals such as bats – or from a laboratory leak.

The report said the Wuhan lab had conducted pathogen research and vaccine development in collaboration with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) “for public health needs”.

But the coronavirus used in this research was “very distantly related to the one that created SARS-CoV-2,” the report said.

It strongly rejected allegations that COVID-19 was developed by the PLA as a bio-weapon.

The ODNI report responded to the allegation that three scientists at the Wuhan facility who were working on the coronavirus came down with Covid-19 just before the outbreak.

It said US intelligence found that several Wuhan researchers became “mildly” ill in late 2019.

Some of his symptoms were consistent with COVID-19; Other symptoms are not consistent, it said.

It also said that US intelligence did not know whether those who got sick had handled live virus in their work.

“The IC continues to assess that this information neither supports nor refutes any hypothesis of the origin of the pandemic as the researchers’ symptoms could be caused by a number of diseases,” it said.