Trump blasts world health group, defends early virus stepsRwanda’s President Paul Kagame (above) is the latest African leader to defend the World Health Organisation (WHO) and its head Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus against attacks by US President Donald Trump. Mr Trump tweeted on Tuesday that the WHO was “very China-centric” yet it is “largely” funded by the US. He warned that he could stop funding the global health organisation. Trump on Tuesday threatened to freeze US funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO), saying the international group had “missed the call” on the coronavirus pandemic. I’m not going to go out and start screaming, ’This could happen, this could happen,’” Trump said.

Source: Standard Digital April 08, 2020 13:41 UTC