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Coronavirus – Chiefs of WHO, UN hit back at Trump’s threat
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“Please quarantine politicizing COVID. If we want to win, we shouldn’t waste time pointing fingers…Unity is the only option to defeat this virus,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday.
“I will suggest two things to the world,” he told a virtual press conference from Geneva when answering a question about U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold funds for the UN agency. “The first is national unity, and the second is global solidarity.”
Trump on Tuesday criticized the WHO’s response to COVID-19 and threatened to freeze U.S. funding for it.
Tedros stressed that at the national level, leaders should work across party lines.
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“My message to political parties: do not politicize this virus. If you care for your people, work across party lines and ideologies … Without unity, we assure you, even any country that may have a better system will be in trouble, and more crises,” Tedros noted.
“No need to use COVID to score political points. You have many other ways to prove yourselves. This is not the one to use for politics, it’s like playing with fire,” Tedros added.