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Donald Trump threatens to stop WHO funding
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India, which was elected to the WHO’s decision-making board on Tuesday, said key focus must be on curbing covid-19 President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to permanently cut off US funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) unless the global health agency implements “substantive improvements" in its working in 30 days.
This comes even as WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday accepted that there had been shortcomings in the world body’s handling of the coronavirus crisis and said that an independent review of its response would begin as soon as possible.
Washington suspended payments to the WHO last month, accusing it of being too close to Beijing and covering up and mismanaging the response to the pandemic.
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COVID-19
United States
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Cases: 46 252 513
Deaths: 750 423
Recovered: 0
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India
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Cases: 34 321 025
Deaths: 459 652
Recovered: 0
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Brazil
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Cases: 21 835 785
Deaths: 608 235
Recovered: 0
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United Kingdom
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Cases: 9 215 683
Deaths: 141 607
Recovered: 0
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Russia
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Cases: 8 494 589
Deaths: 237 619
Recovered: 0
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