BRASILIA: The World Health Organization's regional director for the Americas urged the United States on Tuesday (Jun 2) to keep helping countries ...
Director of the Pan American Health Organization Carissa Etienne speaks to the media during a meeting of Public Health ministers of the Mercosur trade block in Montevideo on Feb 3, 2016. BRASILIA: The World Health Organization's regional director for the Americas urged the United States on Tuesday to keep helping countries in the region to fight the novel coronavirus even as the Trump administration leaves the UN agency.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was cutting ties with the WHO, accusing it of becoming a puppet of China. The WHO has denied Trump's assertions that it promoted Chinese"disinformation" about the virus. "The United States has a long been PAHO's largest financial supporter and an important partner as well," Etienne said.PAHO directors on the call advised Latin American governments not to open their economies too fast and to avoid public crowds especially where coronavirus cases are still increasing, such as in Brazil, which has the second worst outbreak in the world after the United States.
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