United States President Donald Trump announced that Washington “is going to end its relationship with the World Health Organization” because it has too close ties to China and has mishandled the covid-19 outbreak.
The president’s comments come the same week as deaths from coronavirus in the United States. exceeded 100,000, the highest death toll in the world.
Donald Trump against WHO
On April 14, Trump announced that the United States would suspend its funding to the WHO and accused the organization of “mismanagement and serious management” and of “covering up the spread of the coronavirus.”””
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“The reality is that the WHO failed to obtain, examine and share information in a timely and transparent manner,” stressed the American president.
The president criticized the agency’s response to the outbreak, saying that “one of the WHO’s most dangerous and costly decisions” was to “oppose restrictions on travel from China and other nations.””
In response, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus defended his agency’s activity, which, he said, focuses on “working to save lives and curb the COVID-19 pandemic.””
