GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has informed his administration to momentarily halt moneying to the World Health Company (WHO) in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered by the new coronavirus.
SUBMIT IMAGE: A logo is visualized outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting on upgrade on the coronavirus break out, in Geneva, Switzerland, February 6,2020 REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Here’s what we do and don’t understand about what this might imply for the WHO and its programs around the world:
Set up in 1948, the U.N. agency has a required to enhance the standard of health worldwide. It is credited with leading a 10- year campaign to eliminate smallpox in the 1970 s and has actually coordinated the fight against upsurges including Ebola.
The WHO is currently leading the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, providing nations with suggestions on how to include its spread. It is likewise collaborating worldwide research study into prospective drugs and vaccines versus COVID-19
The WHO now has more than 7,000 individuals operating in 150 nation workplaces,