With some Western governments failing to follow the World Health Organisation’s advice on tackling coronavirus, right-wing figures in the US and UK are seeking to discredit the UN body as pro-China. But Britain and the US themselves are the WHO’s largest funders and among its major influencers.
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Britain is the WHO’s second biggest state funder – so why is Boris Johnson ignoring its coronavirus advice?
by PHIL MILLER | 21 March 2020
TAGGED: Aid, Congo, Coronavirus
The UK government, which has been widely criticised for its slow and inadequate response to the coronavirus crisis, has failed to heed five areas of advice from the World Health Organisation – despite being its second largest state funder.