Trump ordered the withdrawal a year ago, accusing the UN agency of failing to adopt reforms and mishandling the pandemic.

WASHINGTON — World Health Organization bureaucrats have finally returned an American flag that flew at its Geneva headquarters after State Department officials accused the public health body of holding the Stars and Stripes “captive.

Trump signed an executive order last year, beginning the withdrawal process.

The United States has formally completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday.

Slightly more than a year after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. was leaving the WHO, the move became official.