WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday stopped moneying to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, drawing condemnation from infectious disease experts as the global death toll continued to mount.
Trump, who has actually responded madly to criticism of his administration’s action to the worst epidemic in a century, has ended up being significantly hostile towards the WHO.
The Geneva-based organisation had actually promoted China’s “disinformation” about the infection that likely led to a broader outbreak than otherwise would have taken place, Trump stated.
” The WHO failed in this standard task and should be held accountable,” Trump told a White House press conference on Tuesday.
Nearly 2 million people globally have actually been infected and more than 124,000 have passed away because the illness emerged in China late in 2015, according to a Reuters tally.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated it was not the time to lower resources for the WHO.
” Now is the time for unity and for the global neighborhood to interact in uniformity to stop this virus and its shattering consequences,” he stated in a statement.
The United States is the biggest overall donor to the WHO, contributing more than $400 million in 2019, approximately 15%of its budget.
” This is absolutely nothing more than a transparent effort by President Trump to sidetrack from his history minimizing the seriousness of the coronavirus crisis and his administration’s failure to prepare our country,” said Leslie Dach, the chair of Protect Our Care