Trump threatens to pull US funding to WHO over COVID-19, China claims

US President Donald Trump has threatened to pull funding to the World Health Organisation permanently if it fails to “commit to major substantive improvements in the next 30 days” and prove its independence from China. Mr Trump issued the threat in a letter to the WHO director-general in which he accuses the organisation of missteps in its handling … Read more

Trump reveals letter to WHO

US President Donald Trump has threatened to permanently pull US funding from the World Health Organisation if it does not “commit to major substantive improvements in the next 30 days”. In a letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Trump said, “It is clear the repeated missteps by you and your organisation in responding to … Read more