{"id":52961,"date":"2023-02-27T02:46:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T17:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/26\/covid-virus-likely-laboratory-leak-us-energy-department"},"modified":"2023-02-27T02:46:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T17:46:46","slug":"covid-19-likely-emerged-from-laboratory-leak-us-energy-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52961","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 likely emerged from laboratory leak, US energy department says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated finding a departure from previous studies on how the virus emerged and comes with \u2018low confidence\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The virus which drove the Covid-19 pandemic most likely emerged from a laboratory leak but not as part of a weapons program, according to an updated and classified 2021 US energy department study provided to the White House and senior American lawmakers, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a\">Wall Street Journal reported<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The department\u2019s finding \u2013 a departure from previous studies on how the virus emerged \u2013 came in an update to a document from the office of National Intelligence director Avril Haines. It follows an FBI finding, issued with \u201cmoderate confidence\u201d, that the virus spread after leaking out of a Chinese laboratory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/26\/covid-virus-likely-laboratory-leak-us-energy-department\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated finding a departure from previous studies on how the virus emerged and comes with \u2018low confidence\u2019The virus which drove the Covid-19 pandemic most likely emerged from a laboratory leak but not as part of a weapons program, according to an updat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":646,"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":[41,1854,50,1066,299,47,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biden-administration","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-science","category-us-news","category-us-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52961","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\/646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52991,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52961\/revisions\/52991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}