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Date: Jan 25, 2020
By: AAP

Taiwan's exclusion from World Health Organisation meetings on the coronavirus outbreak has united the island's political parties, who normally agree on little, especially to do with China.

Taiwan is not a member of the WHO due to the objection of China, which considers it a Chinese province with no right to participate in international organisations as a separate entity.

Taiwan was not allowed to participate in an emergency WHO meeting on Wednesday about the new virus, which has killed at least 25 people since originating in the Chinese city of Wuhan last month.

Taiwan has reported three cases, two of which it only confirmed on Friday – a Chinese tourist and a Taiwanese businessman who had returned to the island from China.    [FULL  STORY]