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Trump halts WHO funding as world scrambles to contain coronavirus pandemic


US President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 14, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by AFP)

US President Donald Trump has halted funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) as the new coronavirus pandemic continues to take a heavy toll across the globe, accusing the international body of mishandling the deadly flu-like pathogen.

"Today Im instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organizations role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus," Trump said in a news briefing in Washington on Tuesday.

Trump said the governments review of the Geneva-based agency would take somewhere between "60 to 90 days."

In another virulent attack on the UN health agency on Tuesday, the US president claimed the agency had failed to disclose or respond to "credible" information in December that suggested the virus could be spread through human-to-human transmission.

Trump accused the WHO of siding with China and reliance on Chinese data, blaming it for "all sorts of false information about transmission and mortality" that was circulated amid initial reports.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo earlier said Washington sought to fundamentally change the UN health agency, claiming that the organization did not function very well during the Covid-19 outbreak.

The United States contributed $400 million to the WHO last year, roughly 15% of its budget.

The White House has been seeking to deflect criticism of its own sluggish response to the COVID-19 crisis by putting too much emphasis on the viruss likely origins in China, with Trump and other US officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, referring to the coronavirus as the "Chinese virus."

There have been nearly two million confirmed cases of infection across the world, with the death toll topping 120,000 on Tuesday.

Not the time to reduce the resources of WHO

Meanwhile, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement that it was "not the time" to reduce resources for the WHO after Trump halted US funding.

It was "not the time to reduce the resources for the operations of the World Health Organization or any other humanitarian organization in the fight against the virus," Guterres said. "Now is the time for unity and for the international community to work together in solidarity to stop this virus and its shattering consequences."

The UN chief added that, "It is my belief that the World Health Organization must be supported, as it is absolutely critical to the worlds efforts to win the war against COVID-19."

 

SOURCE: PRESS TV

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