An international expert team has set off for China to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, but Beijing has yet to provide the necessary access, the WHO chief has said. "Today, we learned that Chinese officials have not yet finalised the necessary permissions for the team's arrivals in China," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. "I am very disappointed with this news, given that two members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute," he said.
He stressed that he had been in contact with senior Chinese officials to make clear "that the mission is a priority for WHO and the international team". "I have been assured that China is speeding up the internal procedure for the earliest