The United States has accused the body of “putting politics first” by ignoring Taiwan’s warning in late December and thus helping Beijing conceal the pandemic’s gravity. | AFP
The World Health Organization on Friday denied having brushed off a Taiwanese warning on the human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus soon after its outbreak in China late 2019.
President Donald Trump has threatened to withhold funding for the WHO, which is at the forefront of fighting the pandemic that has infected more than 1.5 million people worldwide since emerging in Wuhan, China. Relations between the WHO and Taiwan had been strained even before the pandemic but have deteriorated even further over the past three months.
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