Hong Kong Free Press
Date: 11TH APRIL 2020
By: AFP

The World Health Organisation on Friday denied having brushed off a Taiwanese warning on

human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus soon after its outbreak in China late last year. 

The US 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. 

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. 

The United States said Thursday it was “deeply disturbed that Taiwan’s information was withheld from the global health community, as reflected in the WHO’s January 14, 2020 statement that there was no indication of human-to-human transmission”.    [FULL  STORY]