US President Donald Trump has paused funding for the World Health Organization (WHO), insisting the agency must be held accountable for its alleged failures in responding to the Covid-19 crisis, making good on a previous threat.
“Today I’m instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the … organization’s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus,” Trump said at a White House briefing on Tuesday, adding that the US has a “duty to insist on full accountability” from the public health body.
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