Bill Gates said in a recent interview that the chance of another pandemic in the next 4 years is between 10% and 15%.

The Central Intelligence Agency said the Covid-19 pandemic “more likely” originated from a lab leak than a natural source, shifting its stance after previously saying both scenarios were possible.

The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, changing the agency’s yearslong stance that it couldn’t conclude with certainty where the pandemic started.

"We have low confidence in this judgment and will continue to evaluate any available credible new intelligence reporting or open-source information that could change CIA's assessment," says an agency

The intelligence agency says it has a “low confidence” in its new finding, but this is further than it has ever gone in pinpointing the origin of the virus that killed millions worldwide.

Known as human metapneumovirus (hMPV), this virus is one of the viruses that cause the common cold (upper respiratory infection). It belongs to the Pneumoviridae family of viruses, along with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). It spreads just like other common colds.

NEW YORK - The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the Covid-19 pandemic is "more likely" to have emerged from a lab rather than from nature, an agency spokesperson said on Saturday (Jan 25).

The CIA has assessed that COVID-19 likely originated from a lab incident, though both lab and natural origins remain plausible.

The assessment released Saturday points at China while acknowledging that the CIA has “low confidence” in its own conclusion.

The US Central Intelligence Agency has changed its opinion on the causes of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. US intelligence is now leaning towards the coronavirus leakage from a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan,

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said one of his first priorities was getting his agency to make a public assessment on the pandemic's origins. "That's a day-one thing for me," he said .