Speaking at the White House President Donald Trump announced that the United States would halt all funding to the UN's World Health Organisation.

He accused the WHO of a cover-up saying they were too slow in their initial response to the outbreak of the pandemic. The WHO declared a global health emergency on 30 January, while President Trump continued to downplay coronavirus comparing it to flu.

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