G7 leaders discuss COVID origins – as WHO keeps Wuhan lab leak theory ‘open’

G7 leaders discuss COVID origins – as WHO keeps Wuhan lab leak theory ‘open’

G7 leaders have discussed the origins of the coronavirus outbreak as the World Health Organisation confirmed all hypotheses continue to be considered - including the Wuhan lab leak theory.

At their summit in Cornwall on Saturday, G7 leaders were joined by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO's director general, during their talks on the COVID crisis and efforts to avoid future pandemics.

The WHO chief set the world's leading democracies the challenge of vaccinating 70% of the global population against COVID by the time of the G7's next summit in Germany next year.