Taiwan not invited to WHO meeting despite COVID-19 success


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Taiwan says is has yet to receive an invite to a key World Health Organization (WHO) meeting that begins later on Monday and will focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 50 million people diagnosed with the virys around the world. The WHO’s 83-page list of delegations for the 73rd meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA), its decision-making body, does not include any representation from Taiwan, a self-ruled island that China claims as its own. Taiwan’s foreign minister blamed “obstruction” from China. The United States mission in Geneva last week urged WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to invite...