Both parties are already at loggerheads over Taipei's exclusion from the WHO. FMTNews Coronavirus China Wuhan
1 of the Taiwanese citizens sent back from Wuhan earlier was infected with the disease.
Only one flight from China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, has evacuated 247 of the estimated 500 Taiwanese caught up in China’s preventative lockdown of Wuhan. “This also caused an overlap infection risk for the people on the same flight, and if there are even more infected people caused by this then the serious consequences don’t bear thinking about.”
“Our fellow countrymen in Wuhan are our compatriots, and we hope to provide the best care to them,” she said.China, for its part, says Taiwan should not be putting up obstacles to evacuate the Taiwanese, and further planned evacuation flights this week had been put off because Taipei blocked them.
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