TAIPEI (REUTERS) - Tension flared again on Saturday (April 11) as Taiwan accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of playing word games in a dispute over details it sought in an email querying if the new coronavirus could be transmitted between people.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TAIPEI - Tension flared again on Saturday as Taiwan accused the World Health Organisation of playing word games in a dispute over details it sought in an e-mail querying if the new coronavirus could be transmitted between people.
Such an approach, Taiwan says, deprived it of timely information to fight the virus, and it accused the WHO of having ignored its communications early in the pandemic, which has infected 1.6 million people and killed 100,000 worldwide. "News resources today indicate that at least seven atypical pneumonia cases were reported in Wuhan, China," Mr Chen said, reading the e-mail.
Sars, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, was caused by a previously unknown virus believed to have emerged from the wet markets of China's southern province of Guangdong in 2002-2003 that eventually killed 774 people in nearly 30 countries.
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