WHO clarifies details of early covid patients in Wuhan after errors in virus report
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The World Health Organization said it will fix several “unintended errors” in a joint reportwith China on the origins of the coronavirus crisis and will look into other possible discrepancies.
In response to questions from The Washington Post, the WHO is changing the virus sequence IDs associated with three of the 13 early patients listed in a chart in the report and will clarify that the first family cluster was not linked to the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, a spokesman said.
The WHO did not explain why a map in the annexes of the WHO-China joint report appears to show the first case on one side of the Yangtze River, while the Wuhan government had announced last year that the first patient, who fell ill Dec. 8, 2019, lived on the other side of the river, in Wuchang district.
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