There is no current evidence to suggest that coronavirus leaked from a Chinese research laboratory, intelligence sources have told the Guardian, contradicting recent White House claims that there is growing proof this is how the pandemic began. British and other Five Eyes agencies do believe that Beijing has not necessarily been open about how coronavirus initially spread in Wuhan at the turn of the year. But there is nothing to indicate a leak from the lab could have caused the pandemic, sources say. Intelligence sources in Australia were quick to say they believed it was based on open source, public domain material. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Researchers in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Hubei province, China.

Source: The Guardian May 04, 2020 19:30 UTC