Donald Trump to reconsider US membership if WHO doesn't 'improve' | BISouthAfrica
for its mass quarantines at the time and"transparency," saying its actions provided a"window of opportunity" to fight the disease. But the increasing death toll and rapid spread of the disease painted a different picture of the reality of the outbreak. in funding to the WHO, while his administration performed a review of the organisation for what he called a"failed response to the Covid-19 outbreak.
Trump gave the WHO a 30-day deadline to"commit major substantive improvements," or he said he will make his"temporary freeze of United States funding to the World Health Organisation permanent and reconsider our membership in the organisation." John Lee, a senior fellow at the United States Studies Center in Sydney and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, told Insider that the WHO's leadership has developed"an unacceptably intimate and cozy relationship with Beijing" in recent years.
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