WHO ignored Taiwan on COVID warning: US officialsBy Sam Garcia / Staff writer, with CNAThe WHO ignored early COVID-19 warnings from Taiwan, US Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill said on Friday, as part of justification for Washington withdrawing from the global health body. The WHO “ignored early COVID warnings from Taiwan in 2019 by pretending Taiwan did not exist, O’Neill wrote on X on Friday, Taiwan time. “It ignored rigorous science and promoted lockdowns.”A logo is pictured outside a WHO building in Geneva, Switzerland, in an undated photograph. Iwasaki said that when he traveled to Taiwan in January 2020, he was immediately briefed on the situation by Ministry of National Defense and health officials. Taiwan had already detected an unknown virus emerging in China and asked whether Japan had any relevant information, he said.
