WASHINGTON
The U.S. is ending subsidizing to the World Health Organization (WHO) in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the country's leader reported Tuesday.
"Today I am training my organization to stop financing of the World Health Organization while a survey is directed to evaluate the World Health Organization's job in seriously blundering and concealing the spread of the coronavirus," Donald Trump said during a White House Coronavirus Task Force preparation.
He said American citizens give between $400-$500 million every year to the association while China gives just $40 million.
"As the association's driving backer, the United States has an obligation to demand full responsibility.
"One of the most risky and expensive choices from the WHO was its shocking choice to contradict travel limitations from China and different countries," said Trump.
Trump touched off a firestorm on Twitter a week ago, blaming the world's biggest wellbeing body for being "very China-driven" and offering awful guidance during the coronavirus episode. He said his organization would examine suspending financing.
He additionally said the WHO contradicted travel limitations presented by the U.S. on China and different countries in January however he was not persuaded and suspended travel from China, "sparing untold lives."
"Had different countries in like manner suspended travel from China, innumerable lives would have been spared," he said.
"The WHO's assault on movement limitations put political accuracy above life-sparing measures. Actually the WHO neglected to satisfactorily acquire, vet and offer data in a convenient and straightforward manner," the president included.
"We will keep on connecting with the WHO to check whether it can make significant changes."
UN reaction
Following the declaration, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres gave an announcement calling for help for the wellbeing association "as it is completely basic to the world's endeavors to win the war against COVID-19."
Guterres cautioned that it was not time to cut assets for the tasks of helpful associations just as the WHO.
"As I have said previously, right now is an ideal opportunity for solidarity and for the worldwide network to cooperate in solidarity to stop this infection and its breaking results," he said.
Trump said that had the WHO carried out its responsibility to get specialists into China and evaluate the circumstance on the ground, the episode could have been contained at its source with not very many passings.
As of Tuesday evening, the coronavirus loss of life in the U.S. had outperformed 25,000 with more than 600,000 cases, as indicated by a Johns Hopkins University count.
Since the infection rose last December in the Chinese city of Wuhan, it has spread to in any event 185 nations and districts.
There are almost 2 million affirmed cases comprehensively and in excess of 126,000 passings, as indicated by Johns Hopkins. More than 485,000 have recouped.
