The United States will exit the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States will exit the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

President Donald Trump announces US withdrawal from WHO over Covid-19 handling, marking a significant shift in global health policy and isolating Washington internationally.

The move means that the US would leave the health agency in 12 months and stop all financial contributions to its work.

On his first day in the Oval Office, US President-elect Donald Trump signed an executive order which would withdraw United States from the World Health Organisation (WHO)

President Donald Trump is pulling the U.S. out of the World Health Organization for a second time, the White House announced late Monday. The day-one executive order fulfills Trump's campaign promise to reject global institutions.

Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.

President Trump has signed an executive order​ beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the US to withdraw from the World Health Organization, a decision that would cut off one of the international aid and disease response group’s largest funding sources.