Donald Trump has delivered a blistering attack on the leader of the World Health Organisation and vowed to permanently pull all US funding pending an independent inquiry.
Donald Trump has blasted the Director-General of the World Health Organisation for his delayed and “deadly” response to the coronavirus crisis. In an explosive five-page letter President Trump said WHO boss Tedros Adhanom’s pandering to China had resulted in thousands of deaths through delayed travel bans and health warnings.
“In early January, for example, China ordered samples of the virus to be destroyed, depriving the world of critical information.” Research by British academics has found up to 95 per cent of deaths could have been avoided if the WHO acted just three weeks earlier.
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