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UN health agency on defensive after Trump slams it on virus

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GENEVA – The World Health Organization was on the defensive Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump blasted the U.N.

health body over its recommendations on the coronavirus and threatened to strip hundreds of millions of dollars that had come from its top single donor.

Some African leaders rallied around the WHO's Ethiopian-born director-general, and the agency's Europe chief insisted a worldwide public health crisis was no time to reduce the budget of the entity working to coordinate an often-disjointed international response. “We’re now still in an acute phase of the pandemic.

This is not the time to cut back on funding,” Dr. Hans Kluge told reporters, but ignored a question about whether European nations could help mop up any funding

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