‘Don’t Be Kidnapped By China’: Taiwan Tells WHO in Bid for Separate Virus Tally

‘Don’t Be Kidnapped By China’: Taiwan Tells WHO in Bid for Separate Virus Tally
A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting on update on the CCP virus outbreak, in Geneva, Switzerland, on Feb. 6, 2020. Denis Balibouse/Reuters
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TAIPEI—Taiwan urged the World Health Organization on Feb. 18 not to be “kidnapped” by China, as more countries put travel curbs on its citizens because the health agency groups the island’s coronavirus cases with China in the battle on the outbreak.

Taiwan has reported just 22 cases, but the self-ruled island shares the agency’s classification of China as “very high risk,” since the WHO considers Taiwan as part of China.