Журнал. World association for medical law. The COVID-19 pandemic. Volume 39 2

164 Medicine and Law Prof Sha, the Secretary General and Vice President of the Chinese Health Law Society,wasmost accommodatingandwasprepared tomakeacontribution to the Journal, to fill the void and to present the Chinese perspective of the Pandemic. It is with great gratitude and respect that I acknowledge his willingness to contribute to this special issue. Both time and other considerations have restricted the process, relevant to Prof Sha’s contribution, and the only way forward, within these constraints, was for the Executive Editorial Committee to exercise a decision to include the paper as correspondence while recognising these limitations. This has translated into there being less oversight and some problems with editing, other than to evaluate syntax and grammar, but without this paper, offering the Chinese perspective, the whole concept of this ‘time capsule’ would have lacked a degree of relevance.