The phrase "as first announced" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer back to an initial announcement or statement made previously.
Example: "The event will take place on the same date as first announced, ensuring that all participants are informed."
Alternatives: "as initially stated" or "as previously mentioned".
Mr. Aydin said that the luggage was not his, that the contents of the luggage were not so deadly as first announced and that the police, with much less fanfare, later released him for lack of evidence.
Also on Friday, the Israeli military said that three children killed on Wednesday in northern Gaza by Israeli fire were not retrieving a rocket launcher, as first announced, but were simply playing tag nearby.
Operating on the understanding that ETA would, as first announced in 2002, eventually stop selling parts to companies not owned by the Swatch Group, Breitling is one of scores of former watch assemblers that have committed to building their own manufacturing capabilities in recent years, contributing to the explosion in technological experimentation.
As first announced by federal and local officials in New York on June 2, the plot seemed cataclysmic: An Islamic terror cell planned to ignite the fuel storage tanks and a capillary network of pipes under the airport, threatening a major transportation hub, not to mention a substantial swath of Queens.
As first announced by Dr. C. W. Andrews, to whom we are chiefly indebted for our present knowledge, Mœritherium does anticipate the Palaeomastodon type in the enlargement of the second pair of upper and lower incisors and in the general pattern of the grinding teeth.
"Jos Taylor" is awarded the "Smart Player of the Match", as first announced.
None of those happened exactly as Trump first announced them, and it seems possible Trump will renegotiate with himself on his decision to meet with Kim.
Since the prospective buyer of Azufre, a group of private investors known as Cremi, first announced it would not exercise its op tion, charges and counter charges have been flying.
Hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who emceed the past two shows with aplomb, will reprise their duties (as was first announced back in October).
None of his compromises, however, have aroused as much bitterness as his decision, first announced in 1988, to settle for Tibet's "genuine autonomy" within China rather than press for full independence.
"I was outraged by the programme when it was first announced, as were many archaeologists.
