World Health Organization

The leader of a World Health Organization mission to China to find the origins of the novel coronavirus has said the team felt political pressure, including from outside China, and difficulties in accessing raw data.

The director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said a pandemic treaty would help to tackle gaps exposed by Covid-19, strengthen implementation of international health regulations and provide a framework cooperation in areas such as pandemic prevention and response.