TAIPEH: 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 at the forefront of global epidemic prevention. Taiwan's main opposition party, the Kuomintang, which favours close ties with China, expressed its anger saying that epidemic prevention should know no boundaries. If Taiwan is alone in being left out of epidemic prevention work it will leave a gap, and is not beneficial to promoting epidemic prevention work around the world," it said in a statement. "In recent years, Taiwan has been placed outside the world's epidemic prevention system, and has no way of getting first hand information.

Source: The Star January 24, 2020 13:52 UTC