WHO is ‘one of the best investments’: German FM blasts

US after Trump cuts health organization’s funding

15 Apr, 2020 07:56 / Updated 1 hour ago

"Providing money to the “underfunded” World Health Organization is among the best ways to help develop a vaccine against Covid-19, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has said after Trump halted the WHO’s funding.

“Apportioning blame doesn't help. The virus knows no borders,” Maas wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.

We have to work closely together against Covid-19. One of the best investments is to strengthen the UN, especially the under-funded WHO, for example for developing and distributing tests and vaccines.

On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said that he had suspended the funding of the WHO pending a review to assess the "organization's role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus." He accused the UN-led organization of failing to accurately report information about Covid-19 during the early stages of the outbreak.

The US had been among the WHO’s top donors, contributing $893 million, or about 15 percent, of the agency’s current two-year budget."

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