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 with a "low confidence" has changed its stance and concluded that it's likely the COVI-19 virus was leaked from a Chinese lab before it became a global pandemic five years ago.

On March 11, it will be five years since the declaration of covid-19 or novel coronavirus as a pandemic by World Health Organization, and when it was announced by WHO on 5 May 2023 that ‘The head of

The CIA now assesses the virus that causes Covid-19 more likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China, rather than occurring naturally, according to a statement from the agency Saturday, just days after Director John Ratcliffe took the reins.

The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a "research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely."

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

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.

The Central Intelligence Agency has thrown its weight behind the lab leak theory as the most plausible origin of COVID-19. Without providing details about why the spy agency was changing its position,

"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

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.