Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced $8.8 billion of funding towards fight coronanvirus at a summit aiming to raise money for lifesaving vaccines for children in the worldās poorest countries.
Mr Johnson hosted the World Vaccine Summit, where more than 50 countries and organisations made pledges to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which immunises children in developing countries.
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The Trump administration has cut funding for U.S. nonprofit research into coronaviruses in bats. The renowned EcoHealth Alliance saw its $3.7 grant revoked over their ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused of engineering the novel coronavirus in one of its labs. Professor Robert Garry of the University of Tulane joins CBSN to talk funding cuts, conspiracy theories, and the importance of cataloging the hundreds of different coronaviruses found in Chinese bats.
Members of the coronavirus task force are expected to hold a press briefing Monday as retailers and small businesses struggle to stay afloat and lawmakers fail to reach a deal on additional funding for the SBA loan program. The Covid-19 outbreak has spread to dozens of countries globally, with more than 761,900 cases in the United States and at least 40,724 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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World Health Organization Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus responded to President Trump’s decision to withhold financial aid and warned that coronavirus “does not discriminate between rich nations and poor.”
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Speaking at the White House President Donald Trump announced that the United States would halt all funding to the UN’s World Health Organisation.
He accused the WHO of a cover-up saying they were too slow in their initial response to the outbreak of the pandemic. The WHO declared a global health emergency on 30 January, while President Trump continued to downplay coronavirus comparing it to flu.
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President Donald Trump announced during a daily briefing alongside the coronavirus task force on Tuesday that the U.S. is going to be halting funding to the World Health Organization.
āToday Iām instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organizationās role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus,ā Trump said.
He criticized WHO over their opposition to his travel restrictions as the coronavirus pandemic began.
President Trump said Tuesday that he is instructing his administration to halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) during an investigation. He alleged the WHO was “severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus.” Watch is remarks here from the White House Rose Garden.
Talks over additional funding for small businesses once again stalled in the Senate on Monday. Republicans are asking for $250 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program, but Democrats want even more funds to give to hospitals and state governments. Molly Hooper joined CBSN to discuss where the Senate goes from here.
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US president Donald Trump has given conflicting statements about the future of US funding to the World Health Organization. In a bid to find a scapegoat for the dire situation in the US, Trump began blaming the WHO for ācalling it wrong’. The president then said: āWeāre going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO.’Ā But when pressed by reporters, he conceded that he was just ālooking atā a possible suspension. Trumpās early inaction has come under renewed scrutiny as new reports show his top trade adviser Peter Navarro wrote several memos weeks ago warning of the potential, dire impacts of the coronavirus
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In addition to the $669 million for telehealth, $150 million will be provided in support for families suffering from domestic violence, $74 million for mental health support facilities and hotlines and $200 million to support charities providing emergency and food relief. Read more: https://7news.link/2UHFNS6
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