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Taiwan mulls countermeasures if Philippines doesn't lift entry ban

Published 02/13/2020, 02:14 PM
Updated 02/13/2020, 02:16 PM
Taiwan mulls countermeasures if Philippines doesn't lift entry ban

TAIPEI, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Taiwan is considering
countermeasures if the Philippines does not lift a ban on
Taiwanese citizens visiting the country over fears about the
coronavirus, the island's foreign ministry said on Thursday.
The Philippines, more than 115,000 of whose nationals work
in Taiwan in factories and as domestic helpers, said this week
it had included Taiwan as part of a ban on people from China
visiting the country.
Taiwan is governed entirely separately from China, but
Beijing claims the island as its own and the World Health
Organization (WHO) clubs its virus cases in the category for
China, which has led some countries to impose the same
restrictions on Taiwanese as on Chinese citizens.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Joanne Ou told reporters in
Taipei that Taiwan had a planned response if the Philippines
maintained its ban, but she declined to elaborate, saying a
decision was awaited from the Philippines government.
Ou said "we will continue to communicate with the
Philippines and explain that this is a one-sided and wrong
decision by the Philippines' health ministry, which has already
affected the relationship between the two countries of Taiwan
and the Philippines."
Taiwan and the Philippines have close economic and cultural
ties, but no formal diplomatic relations, as the Philippines,
like most countries, only recognises the government in Beijing,
and not in Taipei.
Taiwan has repeatedly complained that with its 18 virus
cases compared with some 60,000 in China means it is unfair for
the WHO to lump them together with China and mislead other
countries into believing Taiwan faces an equally dire epidemic.

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