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AFP is reporting that the World Health Organization has now changed its account of the initial stages of the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic to say that its office in China first alerted the organisation to the pneumonia cases in Wuhan, not China:
On April 9, WHO published an initial timeline of its communications, partly in response to criticism of its early response to the outbreak that has now claimed more than 521,000 lives worldwide.
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.
New South Wales has quietly added 189 confirmed cases of coronavirus to its total overnight, bringing the total to 3,400 cases.
The health department said 189 historic cases reported in crew members on board a ship were classified as Australian cases and included in NSW totals.
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