Taiwan Receives Global Health Information From Allies Attending World Health Assembly Amid Meeting Rejection

VOA News: Blocked from WHO, Taiwan Gets Global Medical Info from Friends
“Taiwan’s anticipated rejection from observing a third consecutive World Health Assembly will slow its access to world health information including disease outbreaks. But the government used to those rejections has found a series of backdoors to get the health alerts and other updates that it needs. … Some of the 16 countries that both recognize Taiwan diplomatically and belong to the WHO also pass along information from health assemblies…” (Jennings, 4/26).

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