Mike Pompeo tells British MPs China 'bought' WHO chief Tedros

LONDON - US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo told a group of British lawmakers that China had"bought" the head of the World Health Organisation , according to people familiar with the matter.

He did not give further details of what he meant but said there was intelligence to support this comment. Pompeo's allegations mark a significant escalation in the Trump administration's criticism of the WHO and of China's response to the pandemic. "He openly made the point that the arrival of the present chief who had taken the WHO backwards and that it had become quite political," Duncan Smith told Bloomberg TV on Wednesday, when asked about Pompeo's comments.

"WHO is not aware of any such statement but we strongly reject any 'ad hominem' attacks and unfounded allegations," an emailed statement from the WHO read.

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