The G7 on Sunday urged China to cooperate with the World Health Organisation on a "transparent" second-phase probe into how the global coronavirus pandemic began.
"We... call for a timely, transparent, expert-led, and science-based WHO-convened Phase 2 Covid-19 Origins study including, as recommended by the experts' report, in China", the elite group said in their final statement after a three-day summit.
(Published 13 June 2021, 14:13 IST)