"Today, we learned that Chinese officials have not yet finalised the necessary permissions for the team's arrival in China," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told an online news conference in Geneva. "I have been in contact with senior Chinese officials and I have once again made it clear the mission is a priority for the WHO," he told reporters. Mike Ryan, the WHO's emergencies chief, said the Geneva-based agency had impressed on Chinese officials the critical nature of the mission. "We trust and hope that is just a logistic and bureaucratic issue that can be resolved very quickly," Ryan said. "We trust in good faith we can solve these issues in the coming hours."

Source: bd News24 January 05, 2021 18:33 UTC