Donald Trump suspends US contribution to WHO
The United States, the main donor of the WHO, with more than 400 million dollars (360 million euros) per year, will cut its supplies long enough to assess its role "in the mismanagement and concealment of the spread of the coronavirus, "said the President. He criticized the United Nations (UN) agency for aligning itself with the positions of China, which, according to Washington, hid the severity of the virus when it first appeared in December. Which, he said, prevented the epidemic from being contained "at its source with very few deaths."
A decision that the WHO "regrets", and whose impact it will study and how to compensate for it, reacted the director general of the UN agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. For UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, "this is not the time to cut funding for the operations of WHO or any other humanitarian agency fighting" the coronavirus, and there will always be time to study by the rest "how did all those involved in the crisis react".
The functioning of the WHO has shown "gaps" in its management of the crisis due to the coronavirus, had for its part estimated the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, calling for a new "health multilateralism" . But the institution "is essential for managing the current crisis (...). It alone has the capacity to work with all governments to coordinate the health response and the rapid sharing of scientific information, "the ministry said in a statement in the evening.
In early April, the WHO president urged President Trump not to "politicize" the virus by carrying out his threat to end US funding.
The United States is the country hardest hit by the coronavirus, with more than 600,000 cases of contamination recorded and 26,033 deaths in total, including 2,228 additional deaths in twenty-four hours Tuesday, the heaviest daily toll recorded by a country, according to the Johns-Hopkins University count. In New York State, the death toll has increased again with 778 new deaths in the past twenty-four hours, for a total of more than 10,800 deaths, even if the slowdown in the pandemic seems to be confirmed.
The United States, the main donor of the WHO, with more than 400 million dollars (360 million euros) per year, will cut its supplies long enough to assess its role "in the mismanagement and concealment of the spread of the coronavirus, "said the President. He criticized the United Nations (UN) agency for aligning itself with the positions of China, which, according to Washington, hid the severity of the virus when it first appeared in December. Which, he said, prevented the epidemic from being contained "at its source with very few deaths."
A decision that the WHO "regrets", and whose impact it will study and how to compensate for it, reacted the director general of the UN agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. For UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, "this is not the time to cut funding for the operations of WHO or any other humanitarian agency fighting" the coronavirus, and there will always be time to study by the rest "how did all those involved in the crisis react".
The functioning of the WHO has shown "gaps" in its management of the crisis due to the coronavirus, had for its part estimated the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, calling for a new "health multilateralism" . But the institution "is essential for managing the current crisis (...). It alone has the capacity to work with all governments to coordinate the health response and the rapid sharing of scientific information, "the ministry said in a statement in the evening.
In early April, the WHO president urged President Trump not to "politicize" the virus by carrying out his threat to end US funding.
The United States is the country hardest hit by the coronavirus, with more than 600,000 cases of contamination recorded and 26,033 deaths in total, including 2,228 additional deaths in twenty-four hours Tuesday, the heaviest daily toll recorded by a country, according to the Johns-Hopkins University count. In New York State, the death toll has increased again with 778 new deaths in the past twenty-four hours, for a total of more than 10,800 deaths, even if the slowdown in the pandemic seems to be confirmed.
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