International – WHO urges US to ‘reconsider’ withdrawal from global health organisation

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to withdraw the country from the World Health Organization (WHO), citing reasons such as the agency’s “mishandling” of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trump previously took steps to withdraw the US from the global health organisation in 2020, but the move was later reversed by the Biden administration.

The order cites WHO’s “mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic… and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states”…