'Disease knows no borders, Taiwan happy to collaborate with the international community to fight Covid-19': Taiwan Foreign Minister
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Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Jaushieh Wu, while speaking with The Times of India, called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to follow the principles of professionalism and neutrality and protect the right to health of all people including the 23 million people of Taiwan in the fight against current Covid-19 pandemic.
Sharing Taiwan’s know-how of using technology to track and monitor infected cases as well as its proactive measures against Covid-19, Minister Wu said Taiwan has started working with the international community to deal with the virus via information exchanges, cooperation on medical supplies, and joint development on vaccine and rapid tests. Taiwan has donated 17 million masks to frontline medical personnel global and will offer more assistance and support to the world, he added.
On the issue of Taiwan’s unfair exclusion from the WHO, the Minister stressed that diseases knows no border. He pointed out that due to China’s unreasonable interference, the WHO has stopped inviting Taiwan to the World Health Assembly since 2017. Between 2009 and 2019, Taiwan applied to attend 187 WHO technical meetings that it was aware of, but was accepted to only 57 out of them, the Minister added.
