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


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(From left) WHO Health Emergencies Programme head Michael Ryan, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and WHO Technical lead head Covid-19 Maria Van Kerkhove attend a news conference in Geneva July 3, 2020. — Reuters pic GENEVA, July 4 — The World Health Organisation has updated its account of the early stages of the Covid 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 US President Donald Trump of failing to provide the information needed to stem the...