Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee plan to introduce legislation Friday that would restore U.S. funding for the World Health Organization and appropriate 9 billion U.S. dollars to support international efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic, Bloomberg reported on Friday.

"To stop the spread in the United States, we need to stop the spread everywhere," Bloomberg citing Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, in a statement.

"There is a moral imperative to U.S. leadership in the global arena right now, and this legislation is a recognition that we need to lead the international community to bring this pandemic to an end," according to the report.

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