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US President Donald Trump has hinted that there would be consequences for China’s alleged misinformation to the international community and the WHO on coronavirus, that originated from its Wuhan city last year.
Senator Steve Daines sent a letter to Trump urging him to end the US government’s reliance on medical supplies and equipment from China and bring back drug manufacturing jobs to America in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The letter notes that as recently as January, the WHO promoted Chinese propaganda on social media in claiming that the coronavirus does not spread by human transmission. The WHO receives significant financial support from American taxpayers, including as much as 513 USD million in 2017.
Globally, the coronavirus pandemic has killed 1 lakh,19 thousand, 666 people and infected almost twenty lakh people, with US being the worst affected country leading in the number of infections and deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.