Coronavirus WHO says first alerted to virus by its office, not China


Source: thehindu.com thehindu.com

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Clearing the air of ambiguity, the WHO has published a timeline of events in which, it said that it was the agency’s office in China that on December 31 notified its regional point of contact of a case of “viral pneumonia”. The World Health Organisation has updated its account of the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis to say it was alerted by its own office in China, and not by China itself, to the first pneumonia cases in Wuhan. The UN health body has been accused by U.S. President Donald Trump of failing to provide the information needed to...