Japan on Tuesday urged the World Health Organization to allow Taiwan to join its plenary sessions as an observer to discuss the global response to the new coronavirus pandemic."Consideration should be given to regions which successfully embraced COVID-19 in terms of public health response, such as Taiwan," Japanese health minister Katsunobu Kato told a videoconference session of the U.N. body."I would like to state we should not leave any geographical vacuums in addressing global health issues such as infectious disease control," Kato said during the meeting of the World Health Assembly, th…READ FULL ARTICLE