The CIA believes the COVID-19 virus likely originated from a laboratory — but acknowledges the spy agency has 'low confidence' in its own conclusion.

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 .

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