Joe Biden calls for support from G7 leaders to probe Wuhan ‘lab leak’ theory

A tourist walks past Extinction Rebellion activists wearing big heads depicting G7 leaders at the seaside during a protest in St Ives near the G7 summit in Cornwall. Photo: Peter Nicholls/Reuters

Roland Oliphant
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Joe Biden has called for an international investigation to establish whether Covid-19 leaked from a Chinese laboratory as he tried to rally G7 leaders behind a “competition with autocracies”.

However, the US president’s remarks about a “lab leak” yesterday were played down by other leaders, and the G7 summit broke up without bridging major rifts over China.