US intelligence agencies concluded in a statement that the new Corona virus (Covid-19) was "not a man-made or genetically modified", but says it is still studying whether The epidemiological tracking was due to contact with infected animals or an accident in a Chinese laboratory.
"The intelligence community also agrees with the widespread scientific consensus that the Covid 19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified," the statement said.
"The intelligence community will actively continue to closely examine emerging and intelligence information, to determine whether the outbreak has started through contact with infected animals or whether it was the result of an accident in a laboratory in Wuhan," the statement added.
China had previously stated that any allegations that the Coronavirus had been launched from a laboratory were "baseless and fabricated from scratch".
