COVID-19 likely came from a lab, US committee finds

The P4 lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by a World Health Organization team in China's Hubei province on February 3, 2021 [Ng Han Guan/AP]

A committee of the United States Congress has backed the theory that a lab leak caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a report released on Monday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis said it had concluded that the coronavirus “likely emerged because of a laboratory or research related accident”.