OREANDA-NEWS. The United States has suspended contributions to the World Health Organization (WHO). This was announced on Tuesday at a briefing at the White House by US President Donald Trump.

“Today I ordered the administration to suspend contributions to WHO pending an assessment of the organization’s role in bad governance and hiding the data on the distribution of coronavirus”, he said. “Everyone knows what happened. American taxpayers contributed $ 400-500 million per year to the WHO budget. For comparison: China paid $ 40 million".

Washington is pushing for WHO reform and intends to discuss with other countries how to use the US funds provided to this organization, Trump added. Trump was asked why it seems to him the right decision to suspend WHO funding right now, in the midst of a pandemic.

The US President accused WHO of the fact that because of its incorrect assessments and recommendations, 20 times more people were infected with the new coronavirus in the world than they could.