Trump’s move to cut WHO funding prompts world criticism as coronavirus toll mounts | Malay Mail

Wednesday, 15 Apr 2020 05:46 PM MYT

The Geneva-based organisation had promoted China’s “disinformation” about the virus that likely led to a wider outbreak than otherwise would have occurred, Trump said. China urged the United States today to fulfil its obligations to WHO. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the pandemic was at a critical stage and that Washington’s decision would affect the whole world.

John Sawers, the former head of Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service, said China concealed crucial information about the outbreak from the rest of the world and that it would be better to hold China responsible rather than the WHO.More than 2,200 people died in the United States yesterday, a record toll according to a Reuters tally, even as it debated how to reopen its economy.

The WHO said the number of new cases was tailing off in some places, such as Italy and Spain, but outbreaks were growing in Britain and Turkey and the pandemic had not reached a peak.

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