Taiwan says China feeding WHO wrong information about virus cases on island

TAIPEI - China is providing the World Health Organisation with wrong information about the number of coronavirus cases in Taiwan, the island's foreign ministry said on Thursday , after the WHO published incorrect case numbers earlier this week.Beijing says the island is a wayward Chinese province and not a country and is adequately represented in the organisation by China.

On Tuesday, the WHO corrected the number of cases reported on the island after having said there were 13. At the time Taiwan had only 10. Taiwan said on Thursday there were now 13 cases, compared to more than 28,000 in China. "I'd like to ask the WHO, how many times are you going to change Taiwan's name? These are not our correct names. Let me reiterate - our name is Taiwan, whose formal name is the Republic of China," she added.

Taiwan's China Airlines has already stopped its Rome flights, and the island's other main carrier Eva Airways said on Thursday it would postpone this month's launch of Milan flights due to the Italian ban.

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