Look at what they did in Boston a few months ago - made a COVID hybrid that was capable of a near extinction event.
Obviously the network and infrastructure is there, considering the contact, cooperation and sharing of research on the virus between Canadian, US and Chinese scientists before the outbreak, and events and info learned since then have only helped confirm the theory that it was made in a lab.
The real question is whether the release was deliberate or accidental, and if deliberate, then tracking down the who, what, when, where, and why, particularly the why.