British media calls U.S. campaign against WHO ‘faintly preposterous’

London: The U.S. administration has launched a “faintly preposterous” campaign against the World Health Organisation (WHO), aiming to divert attention from its “catastrophic response to COVID-19,” British newspaper The Guardian has reported.

“(U.S. President) Donald Trump’s assault on the WHO is deeply worrying for global health,” wrote Peter Beaumont, a senior reporter on

The Guardian’s global development desk, in a report last Thursday. In the past few months, Washington’s “untruths and hyperbole” have been dismissed as “iterations of Trumpspeak, whose main purpose has been to distract from the U.S. catastrophic response to COVID-19,” the report said.

The United States has reported more than 4.1 million COVID-19 cases with over 145,000 deaths, which are far higher than those in any other country or region, according to the latest Johns Hopkins University tally.

The actions of the White House have shifted from “dodgy dossiers and fake claims” to “a far more sinister agenda,” the report said.

The United States has reported more than 4.1 million COVID-19 cases with over 145,000 deaths, which are far higher than those in any other country or region...