By AFP More by this AuthorGeneva,The World Health Organization 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. In that chronology, WHO had said only that the Wuhan municipal health commission in the province of Hubei had on December 31 reported cases of pneumonia. The UN health agency did not however specify who had notified it. After which, WHO asked the Chinese authorities on two occasions, on January 1 and January 2, for information about these cases, which they provided on January 3. Ryan added that the Chinese authorities immediately contacted WHO's as soon as the agency asked to verify the report.

Source: Daily Nation July 04, 2020 03:00 UTC