WHO claims its regional office alerted about virus in Wuhan, not China

The new revelation differs from the one released in April where the organisation had maintained that the first report of the virus came from China

Six months after the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in China's Wuhan, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has updated its account of the early reporting of the infection. The organisation said that it was alerted about the Covid-19 crisis by its own office in China and not by Beijing. 

"WHO’s Country Office in the People’s Republic of China picked up a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their website on cases of ‘viral pneumonia’ in Wuhan, People’s Republic of China. The Country Office notified the International Health Regulations (IHR) focal point in the WHO Western Pacific Regional