CIA director John Ratcliffe ordered the release of a declassified assessment about the origin theory of COVID-19.

Several studies have said the virus originated naturally — but U.S. intelligence changed its assessment over the weekend.

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.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has assessed the virus that COVID-19 more likely originated from an accidential lab leak in China and not naturally, according to the statement released by the agency on Saturday.

Langley joins the FBI and Energy Department in agreeing that a lab leak is the most likely source of the pandemic.

Newly-confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News the decision to release a Biden-era analysis favoring the COVID-19 lab leak theory is a step toward transparency.

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 a virus that killed millions worldwide.

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment that points the finger at China even while acknowledging that the spy agency has “low confidence” in its own conclusion.

China says it's "extremely unlikely" that COVID-19​ came from a lab, after the CIA said it believed​, though with low confidence, that it did, rather than from natural transmission.

China said it was "extremely unlikely" Covid-19 came from a laboratory, after the US CIA said it believed the virus had more likely come from a lab.

The CIA has changed its assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now favoring the lab leak theory. But some worry this could be an indication of politicization.