New York (EFE).- The director of the US federal police (FBI), Christopher Wray, believes that the pandemic caused by covid-19 was “probably” caused by a leak in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, origin of the illness.
“The FBI has maintained for quite some time that the origins of the pandemic probably lie in a possible incident at a laboratory in Wuhan,” Wray told Fox News in an interview on Tuesday.
“I’ll just make the point that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing everything they can to try to thwart and obfuscate the work that’s being done here, the work that we’re doing, the work that our US government and close foreign partners are doing. And that is unfortunate for everyone,” added the head of security.
Wray explained that the FBI has specialists who focus on “the dangers of biological threats”, which include elements such as the emergence of new viruses such as covid 19 and worry that these threats do not fall “into the wrong hands, a hostile state or nation, a terrorist or a criminal”.
He also insisted that the Chinese government has been trying to block the work of the international investigation into the origins of the coronavirus.
No consensus on the origin of the pandemic
Wray’s comments come after the US Department of Energy concluded that covid-19 “most likely” originated in a Chinese laboratory, according to a report published by The Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper noted that four other US departments continue to believe that the coronavirus outbreak was probably the result of natural transmission, while two others remain undecided.
Without confirming that article, the spokesman for the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, acknowledged last Monday that there is no consensus within the US Administration on the origin of the pandemic and that Washington wants “facts” to be able to prevent other pandemics in the future.
For its part, China deplored being the target of “defamation” about the origin of covid 19.
“The tracing of the origins of the covid is a scientific matter and should not be politicized. The parties involved must stop inflating the theory of laboratory leaks and smearing China,” Chinese foreign spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Monday.