Trump halts US funding of WHO
US President Donald Trump has said that he has instructed the administration to stop funding from the US to the World Health Organization (WHO). Trump has also accused the WHO of mismanaging and concealing its spread regarding the Novel Coronavirus ‘Covid-19’. During a regular media briefing at the White House on Tuesday, he said, ‘Today I am directing my administration to stop funding the WHO. The role of WHO in concealing the mismanagement and spread of Covid-19 will be reviewed’.
He said that the US provides four to five thousand dollars of financial aid annually to the WHO. He said, ‘Did the WHO do its job of providing medical experts to assess the real situation in China and overcome China’s lack of transparency? Its outbreak would have been very less and deaths would have been less. The death of thousands of people and the damage to the global economy could have been avoided. ‘
President @realDonaldTrump is halting funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess WHO’s role in mismanaging the Coronavirus outbreak. pic.twitter.com/jTrEf4WWj0
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 14, 2020
This is not the right time to stop the fund
United States Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s statement has come on this decision of America. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that this is not the right time to stop the World Health Organization (WHO) fund. He said that ‘this is not the time to crunch the sources of the campaign of WHO or any other man-made organization fighting against Covid-19’. He further said that as I have said earlier, “It is time for the international community to come together to stop this transition”.
