{"id":35891,"date":"2021-08-25T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T08:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/us-intelligence-biden-inconclusive-report-covid-origins-wuhan-lab-animals"},"modified":"2021-08-25T22:27:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T13:27:06","slug":"us-intelligence-study-inconclusive-on-covid-origins-according-to-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35891","title":{"rendered":"US intelligence study inconclusive on Covid origins, according to reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assessment unable to conclude whether virus came from animals or a Wuhan lab, according to US media<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A classified US intelligence report delivered to the White House was inconclusive on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, in part due to a lack of information from China, according to US media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The assessment received on Tuesday, which was ordered by President Joe Biden 90 days ago, was unable to definitively conclude whether the virus that first emerged in central China had jumped to humans via animals or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-is-more-about-politics-than-science\">escaped a highly secure research facility<\/a> in Wuhan, two US officials familiar with the matter told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/gdpr-consent\/?next_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F08%2F24%2Fcovid-origins-biden-intelligence-review%2F\">the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/us-intelligence-biden-inconclusive-report-covid-origins-wuhan-lab-animals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assessment unable to conclude whether virus came from animals or a Wuhan lab, according to US mediaCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA classified US intelligence report delivered to the White House was inconclusive on the orig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1066,914,939,512,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-joe-biden","category-medical-research","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35923,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35891\/revisions\/35923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}