“I stop financing the World Health Organization while they investigate errors in the response and conceal the spread of coronavirus,” Trump told RIA Novosti.

Earlier, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Washington’s review of WHO funding in connection with the “low efficiency” of its work in the context of the coronavirus pandemic.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the US position unconstructive and counterproductive in the context of a growing pandemic.