According to the president of the UNITED states the world health Organization has been biased with China during the coronapandemien.
The us president, Donald Trump is considering halting its financial contributions to the world health organisation, WHO.
he says so in his daily press briefing on coronasituationen in The White House on the night of Wednesday local time.
Trump accuses WHO of being biased with China and to perform poorly in coronaviruspandemien. For example, he believes that the WHO should have declared a pandemic of something before.
– They should have known it before, and it was also likely, he says.
He points out that the WHO did not support the u.s. entry ban, which was imposed in mid-march for travelers from China and Europe.
– WHO did not support the closure. If we had not closed its borders, we would have had hundreds of thousands dead, says the president.
According to Trump, a halt of the UNITED states’contribution be “a very powerful grip on the” WHO.
a Few minutes after the president’s announcement of a halt, he adds:
– I’m not saying that I will do it. But we will look to complete the funding.
the WHO is a UN body, and its main income comes from the UN. Trump is not saying at the press conference how much money the UNITED states will withhold, or when.
Trump and other republicans in The White House has several times during the pandemic taken strong exception to China.
They have among other things casting doubt on the accuracy of the chinese statistics on new smittetilfælde and deaths.
Trump is also itself has been criticized for, first, to tone down the virus, which he compared with a regular flu.
He has previously said that the situation was under control, before he declared the national emergency condition.
IN the UNITED states, more than 12,000 died as a result of the coronavirus, while over 385.000 are registered as infected with the virus.
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