The Ukrainian flag in the corner - is why you probably shouldn't trust the NY Post 100% - or the DoE report at all. That's a "low confidence" spy report, using 'hand-picked' analysts - a bit like with the "Iraqi WMDs". Wuhan was funded by the US - Pentagon/CIA, State Department, USAID, as well as HHS. The reason for the funding was to create a limited hangout fallback position - if the truth started to slip out.
It WASN'T a "Leak". It was a deliberate release and spread. It was here in America, no later than July of 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/07/17/third-person-has-died-after-respiratory-illness-outbreak-greenspring-village-fairfax-officials-say/ . Remember "Mysterious Vaping Illness"? If that wasn't tha' 'rona - then that's an unsolved mystery - with identical symptoms to Covid.
http://dilyana.bg/project-g-2101-pentagon-biolab-discovered-mers-and-sars-like-coronaviruses-in-bats/
The US Real (aka "Deep") State, were working on this since Dick Cheney was President. The laws used were part of the "Dark Winter" Pentagon exercise.