Taiwan’s foreign ministry has dismissed as “baseless” accusations from the head of the World Health Organization that he was the target of racist attacks and even death threats from Taiwan.

When asked at a press conference on Wednesday about whether criticism from world leaders such as US President Donald Trump was eroding his moral authority and making it more difficult to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom shifted to telling reporters that for the past three months he had assailed by “racial slurs” and “even death threat.”

Tedros went on to declare that the attacks were coming from Taiwan, accusing Taiwan’s foreign ministry of not disassociating themselves from the campaign and instead piling on criticism.

“It’s enough. But still, they can continue. I don’t care,” the Ethiopian microbiologist said, claiming that while he was not personally affected, he was offended on the part of the world’s black community.

WHO chief @DrTedros says he's been getting racist attacks and death threats from Taiwan. pic.twitter.com/iuGQVkAlJ1 — Shanghaiist.com (@shanghaiist) April 8, 2020

In response to the accusations, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a series of tweets, declaring that the Taiwanese government had not encouraged attacks against Tedros in any way while condemning him for making these claims without evidence.

People around the world, especially in #Taiwan, have seen the way the @WHO mislabeled & outright ignored enquiries about the country. There's been questions about its handling of the situation. In democratic societies, people should be able to express these opinions freely. 2/3 — 外交部 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan) 🇹🇼 (@MOFA_Taiwan) April 9, 2020

People around the world, especially in #Taiwan, have seen the way the @WHO mislabeled & outright ignored enquiries about the country. There's been questions about its handling of the situation. In democratic societies, people should be able to express these opinions freely. 2/3 — 外交部 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan) 🇹🇼 (@MOFA_Taiwan) April 9, 2020

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has also issued a response, inviting Tedros to visit Taiwan to see for himself how their efforts at combatting the Covid-19 virus are going, declaring that the Taiwanese people are “the true victims of unfair treatment.”

Taiwan opposes all forms of discrimination. I want to take this opportunity to invite @WHO Director-General @DrTedros to visit Taiwan & experience for himself how committed the Taiwanese people are to engaging with the world & combating #COVID19. Statement:https://t.co/C6ZCEeJDxB pic.twitter.com/YL5yxBqDPN — 蔡英文 Tsai Ing-wen (@iingwen) April 9, 2020

Taiwan is excluded from the World Health Organization because of objections from China.

Throughout the coronavirus crisis, Taiwan has been feuding with the WHO, claiming that its requests for information sharing are being ignored by the organization in order to not upset Beijing.

Taiwan has accused the WHO of putting lives at risk by playing politics. The foreign ministry says that way back on December 31, it warned the WHO about a new form of pneumonia in Wuhan that could be transmitted person-to-person.

Two weeks later, the WHO tweeted that Chinese authorities had found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission and recommended against any travel restrictions for people from Wuhan.

Those tweets did not age well.

Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China🇨🇳. pic.twitter.com/Fnl5P877VG — World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) January 14, 2020

WHO does not recommend any specific health measures for travellers to and from Wuhan,#China🇨🇳 It is generally considered that entry screening offers little benefit, while requiring considerable resources https://t.co/UU8IgFvjpn #coronavirus https://t.co/t2rFsX3cVy — World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) January 10, 2020