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[11] [12] [13] In May 2020, Taiwan rejected China's main condition for it to be able to participate at the WHO, which was to accept that it was part of China. [14] In May 2023, two reporters from Taiwan's Central News Agency were denied access to the World Health Assembly. The exclusion of Taiwanese journalists was criticized by international ...
Taiwan's handling of the outbreak has received international praise for its effectiveness in quarantining people. [ 10 ] [ 25 ] However, an outbreak among Taiwanese crew members of the state-owned China Airlines in late April 2021 led to a sharp surge in cases, mainly in the Greater Taipei area , from mid May.
The COVID-19 pandemic in China is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). China was the first country to experience an outbreak of the disease, the first to impose drastic measures in response (including lockdowns and face mask mandates), and ...
Taiwan's government says the Republic of China is a sovereign state and that Beijing has no right to speak for or represent it given the People's Republic of China has no say in how it chooses its ...
The donation of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine makes Czech Republic the fourth country to donate COVID-19 vaccines to Taiwan after Japan, United States, and Lithuania. The 930,000 doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was the first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that Taiwan received and were part of the 15 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech ...
China considers Taiwan a part of its territory and has not ruled out the use of force to bring the island back into its fold. Taiwan, which split from the mainland in 1949, rejects Beijing's claim ...
The first death due to COVID-19 in the country occurred on 15 March. [302] Turkey stood out from the rest of Europe by not ordering a legal lockdown [note 2] [303] until April 2021, when the country enacted its first nationwide restrictions. [304] The government kept many businesses open, and allowed companies to set their own guidelines for ...
Any attempt to seize Taiwan, a self-ruled island of 23 million that Beijing views as a breakaway province, would require warships, armored vehicles, and heavy firepower, to answer Taiwan's ...