Ariana News Agency-\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Trump said Chinese officials \u201cignored\u201d their reporting obligations to the WHO and pressured the agency to mislead the world when the virus was first discovered.<\/p>\n The U.S. is the largest source of financial support for the WHO, and its exit is expected to significantly weaken the organization. Trump said the U.S. would be \u201credirecting\u201d the money to \u201cother worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs,\u201d without providing specifics.<\/p>\n The WHO declined to comment on the announcement.<\/p>\n Asian countries have also been tentatively moving toward a return to a kind of normalcy. Around 400 German managers, workers and their families began returning to China aboard charter flights as multinational companies in the world\u2019s second-largest economy seek to get their operations running again.<\/p>\n More than 5,200 German companies operate in China, employing more than 1 million people.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know there is a huge demand in the German business community to get more foreign employees back to China,\u201d said Jens Hildebrandt, executive director of the German Chamber of Commerce in North China.<\/p>\n China reported reported four new confirmed cases on Saturday, all brought from outside the country, and no new deaths. Just 63 people remained in treatment.<\/p>\n South Korea reported 39 new cases on Saturday, most of them in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area where officials have linked the infections to warehouse workers. Authorities have so far maintained the phased reopening of schools in the hope that the recent transmissions could be contained quickly.<\/p>\n India registered another record single day jump of 7,964 cases and 265 deaths, a day before the 2-month-old lockdown is set to end.<\/p>\n U.S. Commerce Department statistics released Friday showed a record-shattering 13.6% drop in spending in April, a day after a federal jobs report showed another 2 million-plus Americans went out of work last week. Consumer spending is the primary driver of the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n The figures showed that consumers are unable or reluctant to spend, as wages and salaries \u2014 normally the key component of overall income \u2014 sank by an annualized $740 billion in April.<\/p>\n The latest job-loss figures from the U.S. Labor Department brought to 41 million the running total of Americans who have filed for unemployment since shutdowns took hold in mid-March.<\/p>\n The bad economic news in the U.S. was echoed in Europe, where an extensive social welfare net was showing signs of fraying, as protests erupted for a second day in Spain against layoffs by French carmaker Renault and Italy\u2019s chief central banker warned that \u201cuncertainty is rife.\u201d<\/p>\n However, Italy\u2019s Health Ministry reported no critical coronavirus infection spikes in any region, giving a positive go-ahead for the planned June 3 reopening of Italy to inter-regional travel by Italians and Europeans alike.<\/p>\n Russia\u2019s government, meanwhile, presented updated coronavirus statistics to include deaths of those who tested positive for the virus but died of other causes.<\/p>\n Friday\u2019s announcement by Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova followed criticism from some Russian and Western experts who alleged that Russian authorities were under-reporting COVID-19 deaths for political reasons.<\/p>\n U.S. cities and states are under increasing pressure reopen, especially for service industries that had seen customer numbers evaporate. New Orleans, however, will likely ease restrictions on gatherings and businesses more slowly than the rest of Louisiana, a city health official said Friday.<\/p>\n Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards is expected to announce Monday whether Louisiana will further ease restrictions when current emergency orders expire June 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0Donald Trump announced that the US will end its support for the World Health Organization, charging it didn\u2019t respond adequately to the pandemic because of China\u2019s \u201ctotal control\u201d over the U.N. agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":[],"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"","target":"0","top_stories":"0","top":"1"},"categories":[3],"tags":[124,686,96,47,744],"class_list":["post-5369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-china","tag-coronavirus","tag-donald-trump","tag-us","tag-world-health-organization"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":false,"top":true,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"\n