World Health Organisation chief slams US for politicising coronavirus crisis
- Tedros denies he is favourable to China and thanks the US for its generous funding, but says the two countries should work together
- He also singles out the Taiwan government for condoning what he says were online attacks against him
The World Health Organisation’s chief slammed the US for politicising the Covid-19 pandemic and singled out the Taiwan government for condoning what he said were online attacks against him.
Tedros denied he was favourable to China and thanked the United States for its generous funding, but said the two countries should work together.
“Now, the US and China should come together and fight this dangerous enemy,” Tedros said. “[There is] no need to use Covid to score political points.”
“We don’t do politics at WHO,” he said. “We care for the poor. We care for those who are vulnerable.”
On Tuesday, Trump threatened to withhold US funding from the World Health Organisation. He had castigated the WHO on Twitter earlier that day and issued a veiled threat against the agency.
