Foreign Property News | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
Donald Trump said the United States is severing all ties with the World Health Organisation and announced other steps intended to punish that group and China for what he dubbed a “cover up” of the coronavirus outbreak on Chinese soil – but he abruptly ended what he dubbed a press conference before he could face questions about the killing of a black man in Minnesota by a white police officer.
“The world deserves answers,” the president said about WHO and Chinese officials’ actions when the Covid-19 virus went public in China – then infected millions across the world.
He blamed Chinese officials for, in his words, having “pressured the World Health Organisation to mislead the world” about the virus.
“Countless lives have been taken” by Covid-19 and it spawned “profound economic hardship”, Mr Trump said.
Mr Trump added that Chinese officials have “violated” their promises, which he contended “cannot be swept aside”.
“China’s cover up of the Wuhan virus allowed the disease to spread throughout the world,” he said. “Chinese officials ignored their reporting obligations to the World Health Organisation.”
Mr Trump said he is terminating the US relationship with the WHO because they have refused to make changes his administration has requested, and will be redirecting funds now dedicated to the WHO elsewhere.
Ref: Independent
