Germany’s spy agency believed in 2020 that there was an 80-90 per cent chance Covid leaked from a Chinese lab but details of the assessment were kept under wraps, according to German media.

The New York Times published an opinion column claiming the scientific community "badly misled" the public in an effort to suppress the theory that COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan ...

One prominent rumor is that it first escaped from a lab in Wuhan studying bat coronaviruses and then spread to the public. This theory has also evolved into claims that the virus was genetically ...

Recent reporting, including from The New York Times, suggests that the theory of COVID-19 originating from a Wuhan lab ...

So has the National Intelligence Council, a body of senior intelligence officers that reports to the Office ... has long said ...

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Will the latest report by the Energy Department change ... media and public-health groupthink about COVID," and how the lab-leak theory was a nutty conspiracy theory, "was mistaken and destructive." ...

China denies German media reports of an assessment carried out by spying agency BND in 2020 supporting the theory.