According to Russia Today’s Russian Television (RT) on the 21st, a few months after former President Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO)
The U.S. government led by Biden announced that it would resume “meeting its financial obligations to the World Health Organization” and planned to seek $1.9 trillion from Congress for the United States.
Fight against the coronavirus pandemic and rescue.
On his first day in office, the new President Biden said that he would rescind former President Trump’s decision to suspend the United States from paying $400 million a yearly membership dues to the WHO.
The United States is the largest single funder of the World Health Organization.
“I am honored to announce that the United States will remain a member of the World Health Organization,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to COVID-19, who was appointed by Biden, said during a video conference of the WHO panel on the 21st.
WHO Director-General Tedros said, “This is a good day for WHO, and it is a good day for global health work.”
In addition, the Biden administration has expressed interest in joining the WHO-led COVID-19 Vaccine Implementation Program (COVAX), a global project for the equitable distribution of vaccines, including distribution to the poorest countries.
Earlier, Biden set a target of vaccinating 100 million Americans against the coronavirus in the next 100 days.
At present, more than 400,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the United States, making it the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the world.
