GENEVA:
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.
The UN health body has been accused by US President Donald Trump of failing to provide the information needed to stem the pandemic and of being complacent towards Beijing, charges it denies.
On April 9, WHO published an initial timeline of its communications, partly in response to criticism of its early respo