Argentina has announced it will leave the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A spokesman for right-wing populist President Javier Milei announced this on Wednesday, February 5, 2025.
The decision comes two weeks after United States President Donald Trump announced on the first day of his second term that the U.S. would leave the WHO.
“President Javier Milei has instructed Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein to withdraw Argentina from the WHO,” said the government spokesman, Manuel Adorni, at a press conference.
Like Trump, Milei’s spokesman said the Argentinean government has profound disagreements with the WHO regarding the response to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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“We Argentines will not allow an international organisation to interfere with our sovereignty and certainly not with our health,” said Adorni.
At the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, the South American country had imposed very strict measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, dpa reported.
Curfews were in place longer than in almost any other country in the world and, in some cases. People were only allowed to leave their homes for essential shopping and doctor’s appointments.
Milei became president in December 2023.
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