Covid-19: China scoffs at FBI claim that Wuhan lab leak likely caused pandemic

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning gestures during a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. China lashed out Wednesday at a new U.S. House committee dedicated to countering Beijing, demanding its members "discard their ideological bias and zero-sum Cold War mentality." - Photo: AP Photo

WASHINGTON (REUTERS): The FBI has assessed that a leak from a laboratory in the central Chinese city of Wuhan likely caused the Covid-19 pandemic, director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday (Feb 28), a claim China said had "no credibility whatsoever".

"The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan," Wray told Fox News.