Either CNN, DOE or both seem to have confused WIV with Wuhan CDC's labs. This won"t add any credibility to the "low confidence" report.
They are likely deliberately confusing Wuhan CDC and Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), as the lab leak theory falls apart completely otherwise.
Wuhan actually consists of three component cities, Wuchang, Hanyang, and Hankou, which are separated by the Yangtze and Han rivers. Together, the three component cities of Wuhan covers an area more than 10 times that of New York city.
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, which conducts research on coronaviruses, is located in Jiangxia district at the very southern end of Wuchang, which is itself the southern most component city of Wuhan located south of the Yangtze river. The market where COVID broke out, is in Hankou, the northern most component city of Wuhan north of the Han river. The Wuhan CDC lab, which does not conduct coronavirus research, is also located in Hankou.
It would be highly improbable for a virus leak at the WIV lab to move across all of Wuchang's large and heavily populated districts without spreading, jump over the Yangtze river, move across Hanyang without spreading, then jump over the Han river, and finally penetrate deep into Hankou before it finally starts to infect people.
The lab leak theory only works if there is a lab researching coronaviruses near the initial outbreak. The WIV works with coronaviruses but is too far away. The Wuhan CDC is close but doesn't work with coronaviruses. Thus, they must deliberately confuse the two to make their theory make sense.