Trump threatens to permanently cut US funding of WHO

US president Donald Trump has sent a letter to the head of the World Health Organization, WHO, threatening to pull US funding permanently over COVID-19.

The letter outlines a 30-day deadline for the body to commit to substantive improvements or risk losing millions and US membership altogether.

The letter addressed to the organization chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, criticizes stages of the body’s response since December.

Mr Trump had earlier called the UN’s health body a puppet of China