Trump stops WHO financing, with world on edge over infection lockdowns

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday cut off financing to the World Health Company, accusing the UN body of mishandling the coronavirus crisis as federal governments come to grips with how and when to get their struggling economies back to work.

The lethal pandemic has currently eliminated more than 125,000 people and infected nearly 2 million around the world given that it initially emerged in China late last year.

The novel coronavirus has also overthrew the lives of billions of people as countries enforced lockdown procedures to suppress its spread- unquestionably lowering the death toll but also sending out the global economy into a tailspin.

As the tally of deaths and new infections appears to begin to level off, world leaders and citizens are fiercely discussing when to raise stay-at-home orders.

Trump said he could see “rays of light” on the horizon for the world’s largest economy, however introduced a virulent attack on the WHO for “significantly mishandling and covering up the spread of the coronavirus.”

” We have deep concerns whether America’s kindness has actually been put to the best usage possible,” Trump informed reporters at the White House as he announced a stop to