United States President Donald Trump has instructed his administration to halt funding to the World Health Organization over the agency’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “Today I’m instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization’s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus,” he said. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] “Everybody knows what’s going on there.” According to the Trump, American taxpayers pay between US$400 million and US$500 million dollars per year to the WHO.