The Covid-19 pandemic emerged from a genetically modified virus which leaked from the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), according to an investigation by the US House of Representatives Republicans into the origins of Covid-19, released on Monday. The report by Representative Michael McCaul, a top Republican at the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is based on open source material, the Hill.com reported.

"As we continue to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, I believe it's time to completely dismiss the wet market as the source of the outbreak. Instead, as this report lays out, a preponderance of the evidence proves that all roads lead to the WIV (Wuhan Institute of Virology)," McCaul said in a statement. The report also raises concern that the lab was conducting "gain-of-function" research in an unsafe environment.