WHO director to world leaders including Trump: Stop 'politicizing' coronavirus

The director of the World Health Organization sent a message Wednesday to world leaders – “quarantine politicizing COVID.”

The remark by WHO Director Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus came one day after President Trump said that the White House was “going to look into” cutting off funding to the group. The United States is the single largest contributor to the WHO.

Trump had previously accused the WHO of being “very China centric,” and said the group “really blew it,” on its initial response to the virus.

Ghebreysu told reporters that the United States and China should "come together and fight this dangerous enemy … and that the rest of G-20 should come together to fight it, and the rest of the world should come together to fight it.”

“We will have many body bags in front of us if we don’t behave,” he said. “When there are cracks at [the] national level and global level, that is when the virus succeeds.”

The global organization also issued a message in January that downplayed the severity of the illness and a criticized Trump’s ban on travel from China.