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US President Donald Trump has once again lashed out again World Health Organization (WHO) at the UN’s health body by calling it a “puppet of China”. US is irked with the WHO as it believes the organization gave wrong advises to the US over coronavirus.
The comment came hours after the US said the WHO had let Covid-19 spin “out of control” at the cost of “many lives”. Earlier too the US had blamed the WHO for the spread of infection across globe and had pointed timely and correct advise would have stopped the spread much before.
The US, which is the WHO’s biggest donor, has already suspended its funding of the group. The attack came after the WHO said an independent review would happen as soon as possible. “There was a failure by this organisation to obtain the information that the world needed,” US Health Secretary Alex Azar said. Azar made the comments in an address to the UN’s World Health Assembly.
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The US accused the WHO failed to adequately obtain, vet and share information in a timely and transparent fashion. Also through the middle of January, WHO parroted the idea that there was no human-to-human transmission happening despite clear evidence to the contrary. The WHO has refused the allegations.
The US also stated the WHO is funded largely by the United States, yet is very China-centric. And that one of the most dangerous decisions from the WHO was to oppose travel restrictions. They actually fought us.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus earlier agreed to a review over the agency’s handling of the pandemic. Tedros said an independent evaluation, which would look at what lessons could be learned and put forward any recommendations, would take place at the earliest. The two-day assembly – an annual meeting involving 194 member states of the WHO that reviews the work of the UN’s health agency – comes amid recriminations between the US and China over the virus.
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US President Donald Trump, who faces re-election this year and has been criticised for his handling of the pandemic, has blamed China for trying to cover up the outbreak and has accused the WHO of failing to hold Beijing to account.
