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World Health Organization (WHO) had "good collaboration" with the Beijing authorities, said an WHO expert here Thursday. Daniel Chin, WHO medical officer, told a news briefing that it was also the goal of WHO to "lift any kind of restrictive travel recommendations from Beijing, as well as to the rest of China," adding that the decision should be made by WHO headquarters according to certain criteria. Henk Bekedam, WHO representative to China, said the organization will soon review travel advisories on the provinces of Hebei and Shanxi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Tianjin Municipality. Chin admitted that WHO had problem on SARS classification with Beijing. "But I am very pleased to say, especially in the area of Beijing, we've done really excellent collaboration in solving thisproblem," he said. According to the WHO criteria, the most important indicator to lift travel advisory is "the number of new cases that occurred in the given area for a period of time" Chin said. "I think in Beijing we do not have much problem with the completeness of the reporting," Chin said. Beijing has reported no new SARS case for the second day in a row, according to report of China's Ministry of Health.