{"id":6386,"date":"2020-04-15T10:56:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T10:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2020-04-15T10:56:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T10:56:48","slug":"trump-halts-who-funding-over-coronavirus-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/trump-halts-who-funding-over-coronavirus-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump halts WHO funding over coronavirus response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UN says &#8216;not the time&#8217; as Trump suspends WHO funds over pandemic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday halted funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) over its handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic which has caused nearly 127,590 deaths worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The United States is placing a hold on funding for 60 to 90 days, pending a review.<\/p>\n<p>Trump accused the WHO of &#8220;severely mismanaging and covering up&#8221; the coronavirus crisis, insisting on &#8220;full accountability.&#8221; He also accused the group of promoting China&#8217;s &#8220;disinformation&#8221; about the virus that led to wider outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>U.S.\u00a0contributed more than $400 million to the WHO last year, making it by far the biggest donor. WHO\u2019s budget for 2018-2019 was around $6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres denounced President Trump&#8217;s announcement of suspending WHO funding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now is a time for unity in the global battle to push the COVID-19 pandemic into reverse, not a time to cut the resources of the World Health Organization (WHO), which is spearheading and coordinating the global body\u2019s efforts&#8221; Guterres said in a <span style=\"color: #a80000;\"><a style=\"color: #a80000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2020\/04\/1061762\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>German foreign minister Heiko Maas also criticized Donald Trump for cutting funding to the WHO. He wrote on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quoted\"><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Blaming others won\u2019t help. The virus knows no borders &#8230; One of the best investments is to strengthen the UN, above all the under-financed WHO&#8230; in the development and distribution of tests and vaccines.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More than 600,000 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the U.S., the highest in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN says &#8216;not the time&#8217; as Trump suspends WHO funds over pandemic U.S. President Donald Trump on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,125],"tags":[332,333,186,7,187],"class_list":["post-6386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid","tag-health","tag-u-s","tag-who"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/President-Trump.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1F0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6389,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions\/6389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}