Politico | WHO covering up for China, says US Senator Martha McSally, calling for director general to resign
- Demand for Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to step down is part of escalating series of Republican criticisms of organisation
- McSally also wants US debts to China ‘forgiven, as a minimum’
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Burgess Everett on politico.com on April 2, 2020.
US Senator Martha McSally is calling on the World Health Organisation director general to step down from his post over what she deems assistance in covering up for China's under-reporting of the coronavirus, part of an escalating series of Republican criticisms of the organisation.
The Arizona Republican said on Fox Business on Thursday that Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus needs to resign over the organisation's handling of the virus, which originated in China.
While China has claimed it has essentially flattened new cases of the deadly virus now killing thousands of Americans, new reporting has questioned China's rosy claims.
“I’ve never trusted a communist. And their cover-up of this virus that originated with them has caused unnecessary deaths around America and around the world,” said McSally, who is up for re-election this fall.
