WHO becoming tool of ‘Chinese propaganda’: US

Washington:

The World Health Organization has develop into a instrument of “Chinese propaganda”, the Trump administration has alleged, asserting that the worldwide well being company has misplaced all its credibility throughout the ongoing coronavirus disaster. US President Donald Trump just lately introduced he would put a maintain on America’s funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), accusing the UN well being physique of changing into “China-centric” throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

The United States is the biggest contributor to the Geneva-headquartered world physique. “The problem with the WHO is that they’ve lost all credibility during this crisis,” US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien mentioned on Tuesday. “It’s not like the WHO has been a highly-credible organization for many years. The United States spends over half a billion dollars on the WHO. China spends about USD 40 million dollars on the WHO, about one-tenth of what the US spends, and yet the WHO has become a tool of Chinese propaganda,” he alleged.

O’Brien mentioned that on January 14, the WHO assured the US that there was no human to human transmission of the COVID-19, that properly into the general public well being disaster in China, that turned out to be completely false. In February, the WHO criticized journey restrictions that have been being positioned on journey from China and different hotspots, not simply by the US, however by different international locations, he mentioned. “That turned out to be totally improper advice, and has been rejected by the public health professionals,” he famous.

On March 11, the WHO got here out with non-medical recommendation and mentioned that the Communist Party of China’s response to the virus has been an “amazing achievement” in containing it. And of now, the virus is in no less than 184 international locations, he mentioned. “So if that’s an amazing achievement, I don’t know what is. So we’ve got a real credibility problem with the WHO,” he mentioned. The United States is working with mates and allies to see if it may be reformed, he mentioned.

“But one thing we will do, even though we’ve suspended funding, we’re going to make sure that the taxpayer dollars of hard-working Americans that they want to see help our friends and partners and folks around the world who need it, we’re going to make sure those dollars get delivered directly to countries, directly to the non-governmental organizations, the Red Cross, places that are fighting this disease on the front line,” O’Brien mentioned.

“Unfortunately, the WHO has just lost credibility at this point, and you know, instead of stopping, when you hit rock bottom, you stop digging. But the WHO today, apparently, is going to keep digging,” he mentioned. The COVID-19 has claimed greater than 45,000 lives and contaminated over 824,000 folks within the US. Globally, the virus has killed 177,445 folks and contaminated over 2.5 million, in response to Johns Hopkins University knowledge. 

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