Has China ever informed WHO of the outbreak? Health Care Commission: The facts don't match

BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua Li Yanan) in response to a
report that "China has never informed WHO of the outbreak", Hu Qiangqiang, press spokesman for China's National Health and
Association and deputy director of the Propaganda Department, responded Wednesday, saying it was "completely out of line with the facts".
China
joint prevention and control press conference held in Beijing on the same day, in response to some U.S. media reports, WHO on June 30 updated the "WHO response to the new crown pneumonia outbreak schedule", retracted the Chinese government's warning about the outbreak statement. This suggests that WHO has finally acknowledged to
that China has never reported an outbreak to the World Health Organization. Hu Qiangqiang said at the press conference that the relevant media reports in the statement is completely inconsistent with the facts.
He pointed out that since the outbreak, China has been in an open, transparent and highly responsible attitude towards global health security, the first time to the World Health Organization, relevant national and regional organizations and China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan region timely and proactive notification of the outbreak information, sharing the new coronavirus gene sequence information and the new coronavirus nucleic acid detection lead probe sequence information, regularly inform the World Health Organization and relevant countries of the outbreak information.
Hu Qiangqiang said that the White Paper on China's Action against the New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic, issued by the china
Information Office in June, comprehensively documented the great history of the Chinese people's fight against the epidemic and shared China's experience in fighting the epidemic with the international community.
According to the White Paper on China's Action to Combat the New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic, since January 3, 2020, China has regularly informed the World Health Organization, relevant national and regional organizations and The Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions of China of the outbreak on a timely basis; The World Health Organization website issued a statement on the case of cluster pneumonia in Wuhan, China, saying that the initial identification of the new coronavirus in a short period of time is a significant achievement; China informs the World Health Organization and others of the outbreak on a daily basis, and on January 12, the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China Medical
, and China's
Wuhan Virus Research Institute, as designated agencies of the National Health and Health Commission, submitted information on the genome sequence of new coronavirus to the World Health Organization, which was published in the Global Influenza Sharing Database (GISAID) and shared globally.