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In 2019, a new type of coronavirus (COVID-19) broke out. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Secretary General of the World Health Organization (WHO), publicly mentioned Taiwan’s racial discrimination at the meeting, which caused a public uproar. Yesterday (20), he again responded to the Taiwan problem at a press conference, insisting that information on the epidemic was first proposed by China, and Taiwan did not report on the phenomenon of person-to-person transmission and only “requested more explanations” like other countries. In this regard, Zhan Changquan, dean of the College of Public Health at National Taiwan University, pointed to the problem behind Tan Desai’s comments.
At a regular WHO press conference, a French-language media outlet questioned the subject of warning emails sent by Taiwan late last year. In response, Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Public Health Emergency Program, stated that the earliest information on outbreaks came from “Wuhan, China” noted that the email in Taiwan did not discuss the person-to-person phenomenon , but just wanted to understand the situation. Furthermore, the response from WHO Secretary-General Tan Desai also stated that the first epidemic report came from Wuhan, not from Taiwan, and reiterated that the December 31 mail in Taiwan did not mention person-to-person transmission. Available for verification.
According to the “Central News Agency” report, Zhan Changquan, dean of the School of Public Health at National Taiwan University, noted that in response to the response from WHO Secretary-General Tan Desai, China only reported the epidemic to “China Office at WHO” instead of “WHO Headquarters”. Zhan Changquan said this is inconsistent with the provisions of the International Health Regulations and cannot be considered as a formal notification. He believes that WHO should carry a large question mark if it receives relevant information.
Zhan Changquan revealed that Taiwan formally wrote to the WHO headquarters window in late December. The letter also mentioned that the patients were being treated in isolation. The main point of “isolation” is to prevent the transmission of viruses to humans. He said that Tan Desai not only claimed that China was the first country to notify, but even indicated that it had transferred relevant notifications from other countries to China. However, after sending a letter to Taiwan for consultation, he did not receive a response from WHO to report the epidemic situation, and even after the incident, WHO took no action. Taiwan has no way of learning about the development of the epidemic, so it can only contact China and send experts to Wuhan to understand the situation.
Such a situation also caused Zhan Changquan to say directly: “If you do it, you can do it, if you don’t do it, don’t do it!” He emphasized that if WHO actually received a notification from China, it should make a public record so that the world knows exactly which point of notification and what was notified, and that the world knows what WHO did in this outbreak. (Editor: Chen Yayun)
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