Published: January 27th, 2025,
Last updated: January 29th, 2025

The US intelligence agency CIA traces the origin of the coronavirus to a laboratory. A corresponding report was published over the weekend on the orders of President Donald Trump. The paper was prepared under the Biden administration and former CIA Director William Burns and has now been released by his successor John Ratcliffe. Ratcliffe was sworn in as director on Thursday. During Trump’s first term in office, he served as Director of National Intelligence and already supported the lab leak theory at the time.