President DONALD TRUMP has formally started the withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization, making good on threats over the United Nations body’s response to the coronavirus,.

The United States is the largest financial contributor to the W.H.O, which leads the fight on global maladies from polio to measles, but it has increasingly been in President TRUMP’s crosshairs as the coronavirus takes a heavy toll.

The US leader has formally informed UN Secretary-General ANTONIO GUTERRES that he has started the pullout, after threatening to suspend the $400 million in annual US contributions and then announcing a withdrawal.