NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump has threatened to permanently freeze US funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) unless "substantive improvements" were made within the next 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 covid-19 crisis.
Washington suspended payments to the WHO last month, accusing it of being too close to Beijing and covering up and mismanaging the coronavirus pandemic.
On Monday, Trump posted images of a letter he sent to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Twitter saying the letter was "self-explanatory".