Donald Trump threatens to permanently stop funding World Health Organisation over Covid-19 response

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The move comes after weeks of finger-pointing between the US and China over the pandemic.

Image: Evan Vucci/PA Images Image: Evan Vucci/PA Images DONALD TRUMP HAS said he is considering permanently cutting US funding from the World Health Organisation over its response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“They gave us a lot of bad advice, terrible advice,” Trump said of the WHO, threatening to drop funding from $450 million to $40 million.Later last night, Trump tweeted a letter he had sent to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in which the president said “the only way forward” was if WHO “can actually demonstrate independence from China”.

WHO’s normally bureaucratic annual assembly this week has been overshadowed by mutual recriminations and political sniping between the US and China. The 11-page report raised questions such as whether WHO’s warning system for alerting the world to outbreaks is adequate, and suggested member states might need to “reassess” WHO’s role in providing travel advice to countries.

 

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Good! Now our leaders need to look after us and do the same!! WHO are corrupt to the core. Disgraceful liars.

Yes while the fuckin ticks who run our country have decided to give double,couldn’t make it up, Just so you know,the WHO =China

The problem with Trump is that mad and all as he is, he is unlikely to always be wrong. Lest we forget the WHO told us in January that there was no human to human transmission of Covid 19.

Why cause he can no longer go after Obama and Biden so its time to blame someone else cause there is another scandal at the wh

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