The African Union calls the countries for collective responsibility
Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission it is “deeply regrettable” that the decision of the US President Donald Trump to suspend funding to the World Health Organization (WHO). «Today more than ever, the world depends on WHO’s leadership to steer the global #Covid_19 pandemic response. Our collective responsibility to ensure WHO can fully carry out its mandate, has never been more urgent», - Mahamat wrote on his Twitter page. As he said, today our collective responsibility to ensure WHO can fully carry out its mandate has never been more urgent. President Donald Trump announced that he was suspending funding for the WHO, accusing the organization of "severely mismanaging and covering up" the spread of the coronavirus. Trump intends to clear the role of WHO in the events which have resulted in spread of the virus on the planet far beyond China where it has initially break out. The USA is the largest source of financing for the WHO. Only last year it contribution has made up 400 million dollars, or 15 % of the budget of the organisation. According to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University, in the USA more than 608 thousand cases of infection with coronavirus have been registered and almost 26 thousand people have died. The share of most of all infected and lethal outcomes falls on the State of New York. 107 263 residents of New York are infected in total, 29 511 persons undergo treatment in city hospitals. According to official figures, placed on the site of the office of the mayor, by the evening of Tuesday in the largest American megacity 6 589 lethal outcomes of COVID-19 were confirmed. The number of infected with novel COVID-19 all over the world comes nearer to 2 million, more than 120 thousand persons have died, about 460 thousand have recovered. The African Union is an international intergovernmental organisation uniting 55 states of Africa, the successor to the Organisation of African Unity. It was established on July 9, 2002.
