British PM says it doesn't look like COVID-19 leaked from Chinese lab
Xinhua
16 Jun 2021, 21:44 GMT+10
LONDON, June 16 (Xinhua) -- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that it doesn't look like that COVID-19 originated from a lab in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, local media reported.
"At the moment the advice we've had is that it doesn't look like this particular disease of a zoonotic origin came from a lab," Johnson said Sunday in his closing press conference at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Britain's southwestern resort of Carbis Bay, a seaside resort and village in Cornwall.
"I do think there's a problem with zoonotic diseases and this is clearly something we need to focus on," he said.
Meanwhile, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Britain's "best information" remained that COVID-19 "jumped" from animals to humans.
Leaders from Britain, the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, France and Italy, plus the European Union, wrapped up on Sunday their first in-person summit in almost two years.
Britain also invited Australia, India, South Korea and South Africa as guest countries to this year's meeting.
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