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- The World Health Organization has repeatedly offered support to China as it has struggled to contain the coronavirus epidemic which began in the city of Wuhan.
- At the same time, academics, scientists, other governments, and media reports have suggested a dark reality to China's response.
- The WHO praised China's mass quarantine of some 15 cities. The authors at least one scientific paper has said it came too late to be useful.
- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said China's actions have provided a "window of opportunity" to fight the disease. Meanwhile case numbers continue to rise.
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As China's struggle with the Wuhan coronavirus has evolved, with daily announcements of increasing infections and deaths, the picture has been a bleak one.
But China has found support in the UN's World Health Organization (WHO), which has publicly praised China even as academics and other independent experts have proved much more skeptical.
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