Amid the continuing blame game over coronavirus pandemic, two of world's biggest superpowers - United States and China - are leaving no chance to pull one over the other.?
In a latest move that will surely see strong reaction from the US, China has?agreed to donate an additional $30 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) to support the global fight against?COVID-19,?Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Thursday.?
Hua?said the donation was aimed in particular at strengthening developing countries¡¯ health systems and added that China had already donated $20 million to the WHO in March.?
The move comes after US President Donald Trump last week said he?was cutting off his country's funding to WHO, accusing the organization of failing to do enough to stop the virus from spreading when it first surfaced and for being China-centric.? ?
A bitter war of words has ensued over the past few weeks, with US blaming China for not doing enough to contain the virus, and going as far as to say that coronavirus originated in a Lab in Wuhan, a claim refuted by China.?
China has so far, reported 82,798 cases of coronavirus and 4,632 deaths, although several nations feel the figures have been under reported.?Wuhan, which was the epicenter of the global pandemic and where the virus originated, accounted for the bulk of China¡¯s cases and deaths.
Across the world, the total number of coronavirus cases has crossed 26 lakh while the death toll has gone above 1.8 lakh, according to latest figures from Johns Hopkins University.?
The US has the world's largest number of coronavirus cases at over 8.4 lakh while the death toll in the country has gone past 47,000.