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
director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference on April 20 the first report had come from China, without specifying whether the report had been sent by Chinese authorities or another source.
But a new chronology, published this week by the Geneva-based institution, offers a more detailed version of events.office in China that on December 31 notified its regional point of contact of a case of"viral pneumonia" after having found a declaration for the media on a Wuhan health commission website on the issue.
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