7.35 am: US President Donald Trump says the country is cutting all ties with the World Health Organization. “Because they have failed to m...
7.35 am: US President Donald Trump says the country is cutting all ties with the World Health Organization. “Because they have failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms, 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,” CNN quotes Trump as saying. “The world needs answers from China on the virus. We must have transparency,”
Trump earlier called the WHO China’s “puppet” and cut funding to it. He threatened that the funding freeze would be permanent unless the health body made reforms.
7.22 am: United States records 1,225 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours, bring the toll in the country to 1.02 lakh, with 17.45 overall cases of the virus, AFP reports.
#UPDATES US records 1,225 #coronavirus deaths, bringing its total to 102,798 since the pandemic began, with 1,745,606 overall cases of the virus, far more than any other nation, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University pic.twitter.com/QAU5xibkMg
— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 30, 2020
7.21 am: An infant dies from Covid-19 in Switzerland, AFP reports.
#BREAKING Infant dies in Switzerland from COVID-19, first child to perish from #coronavirus in the country: authorities pic.twitter.com/ALucFxWD4l
— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 29, 2020
7.20 am: Modi adds that India...
