UK government believes Wuhan lab leak most likely COVID-19 origin: report

The United Kingdom’s government is increasingly reassured that the coronavirus pandemic was the result of a lab leak in Wuhan, China, according to a new report. 

While the theory that the coronavirus was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology was dismissed by world governments early into the pandemic, evidence continues to trickle out supporting the claim. Government officials in the U.K., U.S., and elsewhere have begun voicing support for further investigation into the lab leak possibility. 

Now, sources tell British newspaper the Telegraph that the “official view” within the U.K.’s leadership is that the virus did indeed escape from the Chinese lab, though government officials are more open about that view in private than in…