China must provide access for COVID origin investigators: Biden

NEWQUAY, England: U.S. President Joe Biden said China had to provide access to investigators trying to determine whether the outbreak of coronavirus occurred in nature or was the result of "an experiment gone awry in a lab."

"We have to have access," Biden told reporters on Sunday after attending a Group of Seven leaders summit in Britain.

A lack of transparency might produce another pandemic, he said.

(Reporting by Steve Holland and Guy Faulconbridge; writing by William Schomberg; Editing by Kate Holton)