Trump terms World Health Organisation as 'a pipe organ for China'

United States President Donald Trump has termed the World Health Organisation "literally a pipe organ for China", adding the US would soon come out with its recommendations on the global body, followed by one on Beijing.

"They misled us," he said of the WHO on the coronavirus outbreak, on Wednesday.

"We will have a recommendation pretty soon but we are not happy with the WHO," Trump told reporters at his Oval Office of the White House.

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Trump has launched an investigation into the WHO's role in the spread of coronavirus and have accused it of siding with China during the pandemic. The investigation would look into the role of China and as to how coronavirus spread from its Wuhan city.

"It [the investigation] is coming in and I am getting pieces already and we are not happy about it and we are by far the largest contributor to WHO,...And they misled us. I don't know. They must have known more than they knew because they came after what other people knew that weren't even involved," Trump said.

Pending an investigation, the President has stopped US aid to the WHO.

The president said that there are lots of different people whom the US can give this money to.

"We can give this money to lots of different incredible groups. There are a lot of groups out there. It doesn't have to go to the WHO. We can give it to groups that are very worthy and get much more bang for your buck, but we're going to make a decision in the not-too-distant future," Trump said.

"They allow planes to come out and planes are coming out of Wuhan and they're coming out -- they are going all over the world. They are going to Italy very, very big time to Italy but they are going all over the world but they are not going into China," he said.

Trump had banned flights from China in the last week of January.

COVID-19, which broke out in China's Wuhan, has so far killed over 60,000 people in the US.