Taiwan urged the World Health Organization on Tuesday not to be "kidnapped" by China, as more countries put travel curbs on its citizens because the health agency groups the island's coronavirus cases with
China in the battle on the outbreak.
Taiwan has reported just 22 cases, versus China's figure of more than 72,400, but the self-ruled island shares the agency's classification of China as "very high risk", since the WHO considers Taiwan as part of China.
"Taiwan is not ruled by China and certainly should not be labeled as an infected area," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Joanne Ou told a news conference.