NEW YORK: The US has finalized its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, one year after President Donald Trump announced America was ending its 78-year-old commitment, federal officials said Thursday. But it’s hardly a clean break. The US owes about $280 million to the global health agency, according to WHO. And Trump administration officials acknowledge that they haven’t finished working out some issues, such as lost access to data from other countries that could give America an early warning of a new pandemic.

"We have no plans to participate as an observer, and we have no plans of rejoining," a senior government health official said.

The United States has completed its exit from the World Health Organization, the Trump administration said, one year since it began the withdrawal process.