UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said this is "not the time to reduce the resources for the operations of the World Health Organization or any other humanitarian organization" in the fight against the coronavirus. "It is my belief that the World Health Organization must be supported, as it is absolutely critical to the world's efforts to win the war against COVID-19," he said, after US President Donald Trump announced that his country would cut off funding to the UN health body for mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr Trump told a White House news conference yesterday that the WHO had "failed in its basic duty and it must be held accountable." He said the group had promoted China's "disinformation" about the virus that likely