US formally withdraws from WHO: leading senator

President Donald Trump has formally withdrawn the US from the WHO, making good on threats over the UN body’s response to the coronavirus, a senator said. Pictured: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. (File/Reuters)

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has formally withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization, making good on threats over the UN body’s response to the coronavirus, a senator said Tuesday.
“Congress received notification that POTUS officially withdrew the US from the @WHO in the midst of a pandemic,” Senator Robert Menendez, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, wrote on Twitter.