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Trump was given ‘realtime updates’ over Covid-19 as the pandemic developed
President Donald Trump listens during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, yesterday

US SCIENTISTS at the World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters gave US President Donald Trump “real-time updates” about the emergence and spread of coronavirus in China in late 2019, undermining his claims that the organisation covered up information in the early stages of what became a pandemic.

More than a dozen health experts working for the WHO in Geneva relayed regular information to Mr Trump about Covid-19, US and international officials have confirmed.

The Washington Post has reported that many of the US team of researchers, physicians and public-health experts worked for the centres for disease control & prevention (CDC) at the global health body and were based there when the virus was first discovered in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

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