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The FBI official charged China with obstructing investigations into the causes of the global pandemic.

FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday confirmed the agency's assessment that a laboratory mishap in Wuhan, China was the probable source of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a Fox News interview, Wray made his first public remarks on the FBI investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that the agency has evaluated "for quite some time" that the COVID-19 origin is "most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan," as reported by CNN.

Wray noted that China has been doing everything to "thwart and obfuscate" actions to determine the COVID-19 Origin.

His COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory remarks follow the US Department of Energy's "low-confidence" evaluation that COVID-19 most likely came from a laboratory leakage in China.

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US Government Has No Conclusion Yet

John Kirby, the White House's national security spokesperson, said on Monday that the US government has not come to a final decision and agreement on the causes of the coronavirus pandemic, per Reuters.

Wray's statements have so far been met with silence by the Chinese authorities, who previously denied COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory. US authorities were undecided on the coronavirus origin, but they have not decided that the lab-leak theory is the most likely explanation, per an earlier HNGN report. Most of the US intelligence community still thinks that COVID-19 either came up on its own in the wild or that there isn't enough information to conclude one way or the other. 

The COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory was also deemed "extremely unlikely" by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to a study that China cited.

As a result of widespread criticism, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged for a fresh investigation, claiming that "all hypotheses remain open" and need additional research, per the BBC.

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