A girl sporting a protecting masks prays on the Lungshan temple throughout the fourth day of the Lunar New yr of the Rat in Taipei in January 28, 2
A girl sporting a protecting masks prays on the Lungshan temple throughout the fourth day of the Lunar New yr of the Rat in Taipei in January 28, 2020.
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Taiwan has turn out to be increasingly vocal in latest days about its exclusion from World Well being Group conferences.
It comes because the world grapples to include the rising variety of new coronavirus circumstances that has killed greater than 560 folks worldwide, most of whom died in China.
Resulting from Beijing’s objections, Taiwan has been denied membership to most worldwide organizations together with the WHO — a United Nations company. Beijing considers Taiwan as a part of its territory that should sooner or later be reunified with the mainland and shouldn’t have any proper to take part in worldwide diplomacy.
Taiwan’s Overseas Ministry spokeswoman, Joanne Ou, on Thursday slammed China and the WHO for offering fallacious details about the variety of coronavirus circumstances in Taiwan. The World Well being Group reported Tuesday that the island had 13 circumstances, when there have been solely 10 at the moment.
Ou blamed Beijing for the error. “This was fallacious data that was offered by China which created the error,” she stated.
Taiwan at the moment has 13 confirmed circumstances of the brand new coronavirus outbreak, believed to have originated from the Chinese language metropolis of Wuhan in province of Hubei. There are greater than 28,000…