Trump attacks WHO for Jan 14 'no Covid human-to-human transfer' claim; makes it personal

United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday again lashed out at World Health Organization (WHO) over its handling of Coronavirus pandemic. In his daily briefing at White House, Trump accused WHO of lying and said that global health body me a statement on January 14 that re was human-to-human transmission of Coronavirus, while re was. He ded that in many ways, "y (WHO) were wrong."

'On many ways, y were wrong'

"World Health Organization me a statement on January 14 that re was human-to-human transmission, while re was. y criticized me very strongly when I said that we were going to shut down flights coming in from China. On many ways, y were wrong," said US President.

WHO on January 14 h tweeted that re was human-to-human transmission of Coronavirus on a statement based on erroneous information from Chinese communist government.

Trump attacks 'China-centric' WHO

Donald Trump on Tuesday accused World Health Organization (WHO) of becoming "China-centric" during ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and said he would put a hold on America's funding to WHO. This comes after Trump took to Twitter earlier on Tuesday to proclaim that global health body "really blew it."

"We're going to put a hold on money spent on WHO. We're going to put a very powerful hold on it and we're going to see. It's a great thing if it works. But when y call every shot wrong, that's good," Trump told reporters.

Trump said his ministration is going to look into US funding to WHO. "We give a majority of money that y get, and it's much more than USD 58 million. USD 58 million is a small portion of what y've got over years. Sometimes y get much more than that. Sometimes it's for programs that y're doing, and it's much bigger numbers. If programs are good, that's great as far as we're concerned," he ded.

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United States on Wednesday surpassed 400,000 vel coronavirus cases, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. pandemic has w claimed lives of at least 12,936 people in United States, which les world in number of confirmed infections with 401,116, by Baltimore-based school's count.

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(With ncy inputs)