US President Trump is making good on his pre-election pledge to withdraw from the World Health Organisation as one of many orders issued after his inauguration, he announced the start of the process for terminating US membership in the UN agency that oversees global health issues.
Trump's frustration with WHO goes back to the height of the COVID era, reports Bloomberg.
He's repeatedly criticised the organisation for being too slow to respond to the pandemic and being "owned and controlled by China."
It will take a year for Trump's pledge to become official.
That's the time frame the US set for any future withdrawal when it joined the global health body in 1948.
In Trump's first term, he halted funding to WHO and initiated the process of withdrawing.
But before the one-year mark had been reached, Biden took office and reversed course immediately.
