{"id":322292,"date":"2020-04-15T03:36:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T03:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322292"},"modified":"2020-04-15T03:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T03:36:35","slug":"president-trump-halts-who-funding-over-handling-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-trump-halts-who-funding-over-handling-of-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump halts WHO funding over handling of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321605 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/trump-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/trump-2.jpg 673w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/trump-2-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/trump-2-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/trump-2-595x420.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/>President Donald Trump\u00a0on Tuesday announced that he has halted funding to the\u00a0World Health Organization\u00a0(WHO) while a review is being conducted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trump said the review would cover the WHO&#8217;s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the\u00a0spread of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPresident @realDonaldTrump is halting funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess WHO&#8217;s role in mismanaging the Coronavirus outbreak,\u201d the White House tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trump&#8217;s announcement came in the middle of the worst global pandemic in decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trump, at a White House news conference said that the US funds $400 million to $500 million to the WHO each year, noting that China &#8220;contributes roughly $40 million.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was not the time to be reducing funds to the WHO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Guterres said the organization must be supported as it was absolutely critical to the world&#8217;s efforts to win the war against the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The deadly virus has already killed more than 125,000 people and infected nearly two million worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u00a0on Tuesday announced that he has halted funding to the\u00a0World Health Organization\u00a0(WHO) while a review is being conducted. Trump said the review would cover the WHO&#8217;s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the\u00a0spread of COVID-19. \u201cPresident @realDonaldTrump is halting funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322293,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322292\/revisions\/322293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}