Taiwan Says It Warned WHO About Coronavirus In December, But Its Warnings Were Ignored Because of WHO's Deep Relationship With China

Taiwan Says It Warned WHO About Coronavirus In December, But Its Warnings Were Ignored Taiwan is blaming the World Health Organization’s relationship with China for its failure to act on early warnings of human-to-human transmission of coronavirus. 

Taiwanese health officials alerted WHO of the infectivity of coronavirus in late December 2019, but the organization failed to report the claims to other countries, according to a Financial Times report. 

Weeks after receiving Taiwan’s warning, on Jan. 14, WHO repeated China’s claim that coronavirus was not contagious among humans. 

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