The World Health Organization has updated its chronology of the coronavirus pandemic to say that it was not alerted by China to the first ...
The World Health Organization has updated its chronology of the coronavirus pandemic to say that it was not alerted by China to the first pneumonia cases in Wuhan. The global health body said its own regional office had picked up a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their website on cases of “viral pneumonia”.
On April 9, the World Health Organization had published an initial timeline of its communication about the pandemic after United States President Donald Trump accused it of failing to provide information and of being complacent towards Beijing.
In the chronology, the WHO had said that on December 31, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission in Hubei province had reported cases of pneumonia to it. However, the global health body did not specify the identity of who notified them of the development.
On April 20, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had told reporters that the first report of the pneumonia cases had come from China, but he did not specify whether the report had been sent by Chinese authorities or by another source. “The report first came from China – that’s fact number one - from Wuhan itself,” he had said.
But a new chronology, published this week by the...
