Former minister of health Twu Shiing-Jer points out that when the first case of SARS was discovered in Singapore on March 6, that country immediately received from the WHO information on preceding cases in Vietnam. Taiwan, not being a WHO member state, has been unable to get WHO information directly, and even had to learn about the global alert issued by the WHO on March 20 from the Internet.
前衛生署長涂醒哲曾指出，早在今年三月六日新加坡爆發第一起 SARS 病例時，該國立即接獲 WHO 告知越南病例的相關資訊，而我國由於非 WHO 成員，得不到第一手資訊，甚至 WHO 十二日發佈的全球警訊，都是從網路間接獲知的。