A health worker prepares to enter the area reserved to COVID-19 patients in the Intensive Care Unit at a hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 29 September 2020. EPA-EFE/Juan Ignacio RoncoroniTrump, who Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei considers a close ally, moved to exit the organization on his first day in office on January 20.
Milei ordered Argentina's withdrawal because of "deep differences" regarding the WHO's management of health issues, notably the COVID-19 pandemic, presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said, citing Argentina's months-long lockdown under the previous leftist government.
Adorni also cited a "a lack of independence from the political influence of other states."
Trump similarly claimed the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises, and that it required "unfairly onerous" payments from the United States, its biggest funder.
(Reporting by Nicolas Misculin; Writing by Brendan O'Boyle; Editing by Christina Fincher)
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