US President Donald Trump has sharply criticized the World Health Organization (WHO )’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Now he apparently wants to turn off the tap.
US President Donald Trump increases pressure on the World Health Organization (WHO) in the coronavirus crisis. Trump threatened to freeze funds for WHO at a press conference at the White House on Tuesday evening (local time). “I’m not saying we’re going to do it, we’re going to investigate and see if the funding ends,” Trump said. In doing so, he revised a statement made just a few minutes earlier that US funding for WHO should be put on hold – which sounded like a decision already made.
The US president accuses WHO of making serious mistakes in responding to the spread of the novel virus. Trump did not specify when the payments should stop.
Organization is “China-centric”
“The WHO really screwed it up,” the US President wrote in the short message service Twitter a few hours before his briefing on Tuesday. The organization is largely funded by the United States, but is “China-centric”. Trump is generally a keen critic of international organizations.
The US president accused the WHO of making a “wrong recommendation” in the fight against the spread of the virus. “Fortunately, I rejected her recommendation early on to leave our border with China open,” Trump tweeted. The United States had banned travelers from China from entering the country at the end of January. The pandemic had started from the People’s Republic.
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