The World Health Organization (WHO) regrets the U.S. decision to withdraw funding from the organization, its director-general said Wednesday. “The United States of America has been a long-standing and generous friend of the WHO, and we hope it will continue to be so,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference. “We regret the decision of the president of the United States to order a halt in the funding to the WHO.” Trump made the announcement that the U.S.
would cut funding on Tuesday, saying the money would be held back “while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization’s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus.” The United States is the WHO’s largest single