'If we care about our citizens, please work across party lines,' Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said without naming President Donald Trump.
threatened to withhold funding to the agency and said WHO had “called it wrong” as cases of COVID-19 grew up in nations around the globe.
“The focus of all political parties should be to save their people. Please don’t politicize this virus,” Tedros said Wednesday during a virtual press conference from Geneva. “If you want to be exploited and if you want to have many more body bags, then you do it. If you don’t want many more body bags, then you refrain from politicizing it.”
The comments came after Trump, speaking to a question about WHO’s initial response as the pandemic began to spread from China, said he was frustrated with the agency and planned to put a “very powerful hold” on American funding to the agency.and its handling of China’s response to the virus, said at a briefing Tuesday, “but we’ll have a look.”“They actually criticized and disagreed with my travel ban at the time I did it, and they were wrong,” Trump said at a daily briefing.
The president’s attack was largely seen as an attempt to place blame for the spread of the virus — which has infected
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