The US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee launched an investigation of US President Donald Trump’s blocking of funds for the World Health Organisation (WHO), giving the US State Department a week to provide information about the decision as the world faces the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reports.

Democratic Representative Eliot Engel, the committee’s chairman, said the UN health agency is “imperfect” and that he would support reforms. “But, certainly, cutting the WHO’s funding while the world confronts the Covid-19 tragedy is not the answer,” he said in a letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Trump suspended US contributions to the WHO on April 14, accusing it of being “China-centric".

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