U.S. intelligence agencies can't determine the origin of coronavirus despite further investigation

▲ Market in Wuhan, China

U.S. intelligence agencies have yet to draw any definitive conclusions about the origins of the coronavirus that has swept the world, it appears.

The Associated Press and CNN reported yesterday (27th) local time that a report released by the U.S. National Intelligence Service (DNI) showed that U.S. intelligence agencies had not reached conclusive conclusions about the origin of the coronavirus.

The theory that the coronavirus was originally transmitted from animals to humans in a market in Wuhan, China was accepted as a strong origin.

However, as the epidemiological investigations of the World Health Organization and WHO did not reveal a clear source of transmission and the route of transmission, the theory that the virus was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and then spread around the world has also begun to gain strength.

As US intelligence agencies also had mixed opinions on this, two places weighted on the theory of animal origin and the other one on the theory of laboratory leaks.

In May, President Joe Biden ordered an additional investigation of 90 days before reporting the conclusion, urging him to come "closer to a definitive conclusion."

This report comes after 90 days of further investigation.

But U.S. intelligence agencies are still divided over which one is more accurate, a natural occurrence or a lab leak, CNN reported.

Four intelligence agencies have concluded with low confidence that the coronavirus appears to have spread from animals to humans.

However, one other site, with moderate confidence, determined that the first human infection appeared to be laboratory-linked.

However, it was found that there is a unified consensus among intelligence agencies that both of these hypotheses are probable.

Some hypotheses are also unlikely, the report concludes.

The report assessed that the coronavirus was not developed as a biological weapon.

Some Republican lawmakers in the United States have raised this possibility.

Most intelligence agencies are not sure, but assessed that the likelihood that the coronavirus was genetically synthesized is low.

China's leadership may not have known about the coronavirus until the global pandemic began, the report concluded.

The general consensus in the scientific community around the world is still that the virus is transmitted from animals to humans, the Associated Press reported.