With Donald Trump now back in the White House, the intelligence agency in the United States has shared the current thinking on the pandemic.

But the US intelligence agency cautions it has "low confidence" in this new determination.

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

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.

It was unclear the extent to which the agency has collected new intelligence on COVID-19's origins and whether that new evidence was used to formulate the latest assessment.

The CIA now assesses that it is "more likely" COVID-19 originated from a lab leak rather than a natural source, though the agency stresses that the conclusion is not final. A CIA spokesperson stated on Saturday that,

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.

The US spy agency points the finger at China while acknowledging it has "low confidence" in its own conclusion, which is based on fresh analysis of intelligence about the spread of the virus.

The Central Intelligence Agency said COVID-19 likely originated from a lab leak in China in a Saturday statement, pivoting from a previously neutral stance just a few days after Director John

The Central Intelligence Agency has shifted its official stance on the origin of Covid-19, saying Saturday that the virus was "more likely" leaked from a Chinese lab than transmitted by animals.