US President Donald Trump on Tuesday halted America's funding of the World Health Organisation, while ordering a review to assess the institution's role in "severely mismanaging and covering up" the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
The novel coronavirus, which originated from Wuhan City of central China's Hubei province in November, has so far killed at least 119,000 people globally, including more than 25,000 in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University.
"Today I am instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organisation while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organisation's role in severely mismanaging and