{"id":398514,"date":"2020-05-30T08:43:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T05:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=398514"},"modified":"2020-05-30T08:43:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T05:43:11","slug":"trump-says-u-s-terminating-relationship-with-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/trump-says-u-s-terminating-relationship-with-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says U.S. &#8220;terminating&#8221; relationship with WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON<strong>(SONNA)<\/strong>&#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that his country is &#8220;terminating&#8221; its relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs,&#8221; Trump said during a press conference at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus earlier this month, Trump threatened to permanently cut off the nation&#8217;s funding to the WHO and &#8220;reconsider our membership&#8221; if the international body does not commit to what he called &#8220;substantive improvements within the next 30 days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump announced in mid-April that his administration would halt U.S. funding to the WHO, a roundly-criticized move that many experts have said was trying to shift blames and would be counterproductive to addressing the public health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The United States alone has reported more than 1.7 million COVID-19 cases with over 102,000 deaths, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University. Both figures are far higher than those in any other country or region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON(SONNA)&#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that his country is &#8220;terminating&#8221; its relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO). &#8220;We will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs,&#8221; Trump said during a press conference at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398515,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398514\/revisions\/398515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}