The US is the largest financial contributor to the WHO - which leads the fight on global maladies from polio to measles to mental health - but it has increasingly been in Mr Trump's cross hairs as the coronavirus takes a heavy toll.
"This won't protect American lives or interests - it leaves Americans sick and America alone," he said. The US, the world's hardest-hit country, both in confirmed cases and deaths, has experienced a resurgence of the virus since June that has forced several states to suspend their phased economic reopenings.
"This is a pandemic of staggering proportions and we have no option but to continue to put all our energy into controlling it," said the WHO's regional director Carissa Etienne in a virtual briefing from Washington with Pan American Health Organization directors. Two months ago, the United States accounted for 75% of the Covid-19 cases in the Americas, she said, warning that the WHO sees acceleration of cases in several US states, most of Central America and most of South America.
After the south-eastern city detected 191 new cases in 24 hours, Mr Andrews said there were now too many incidents of the virus to trace and track. Although the lockdown covers the Melbourne metropolitan area, the entire state of Victoria will effectively be sealed off from the rest of the country, as state borders are closed.
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