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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US President Donald Trump has instructed his administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization. Trump says the WHO failed in its early response to the coronavirus. The US president, who has himself come under fire for his handling of the pandemic, said the WHO should have done a better job of investigating initial reports in China. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres responded by saying that now was not the time to end support for the WHO. He said its work was “absolutely critical” to the global effort to combat COVID-19.
