The WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic on March 11, a timing it justified on the basis that the disease had taken hold in enough countries around the world.
President Donald Trump has leveled several criticisms against the World Health Organization, the Geneva-based multilateral organization that is leading the international response to the coronavirus pandemic. Trump has also threatened to withdraw funding from the specialized agency of the United Nations.
From late January to early February, the WHO met with China's leaderships, convened meetings with hundreds of experts and donors to discuss the outbreak and again visited Wuhan to speak with health officials, scientists and caregivers at the city's hospitals. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also started holding daily press briefings during which he urged countries around the world to start taking decisive action to limit the disease's spread.
Trump himself appears to have first mentioned the virus in public during a TV interview from Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22, just a day after the
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