Taiwan offers China help again to deal with COVID surge

Taiwan has again offered to provide China with assistance to help it deal with a surge in COVID-19 cases but Chinese authorities have not yet responded,
official Taiwan media reported late on Thursday.
China scrapped its stringent COVID controls last month after protests against them, abandoning a policy that had shielded its 1.4 billion population from the virus for three years.
Victor Wang, Head of Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Centre, told the official Central News Agency it sent an email to Chinese authorities this week and asked how Taiwan could help with the surge of cases in China.
Rising cases in China has sparked concerns from the World Health Organisation that Beijing was under-reporting virus deaths.
Wang said Taiwan has also sent an email to China in early December to “remind” authorities there about as community outbreak and severe cases among children.