Radio Taiwan International
Date: 020 February, 2020
By: Paula Chao

President Tsai Ing-wen says excluding Taiwan from global epidemic prevention is a violation of people’s right to health. Tsai was speaking Thursday while meeting with Randall Schriver.

The former US defense department official is the president of the Project 2049 Institute, a think tank based in Washington, DC.

Tsai said Taiwan shouldn’t be barred from entering the World Health Organization due to political factors.

She talked about the global impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak. The new coronavirus, called COVID-19, originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan last December. Taiwan has 24 confirmed infections, including one death.    [FULL  STORY]