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Ghana first nation to receive coronavirus vaccines from COVAX
The overall campaign thus far has been extremely uneven: 80% of the 210 million doses administered worldwide thus far were given in just 10...
EU mulls vaccination passports to resurrect tourism after COVID-19
Earlier in February, Greece and Israel signed a deal to ease travel restrictions to Greece for Israelis with proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
FDA says J&J single-dose shot prevents COVID; final decision soon
That's just one step in the FDA's evaluation of a third vaccine option for the U.S. On Friday, the agency's independent advisers will debat...
WHO agrees compensation fund for serious COVAX vaccine side effects
Questions of how compensation claims would be handled in the event of any serious COVID-19 vaccine side effects, which are likely to be ver...
UN to rich nations: Don't undermine COVAX vaccine program
Wealthy nations have snapped up several billion vaccine doses while some countries in the developing world have little or none. European na...
WHO warns unequal COVID-19 vaccine distribution can lead to global risk
The longer it takes to suppress the virus everywhere, the more opportunity it has to change in ways that could make vaccines less effecti...
Britain says China must cooperate with WHO on COVID
The United States and Britain have expressed concern over the access given to a WHO mission to China - where the novel coronavirus emerged ...
Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID-19, China took leading role
A nine-month investigation of state-sponsored disinformation conducted in collaboration with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Resear...
China fires back at Washington after it raises concerns about WHO COVID report
A spokesperson for the embassy, responding to a statement from U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan, said China welcomed Washington...
COVID-19: US says China must make available data from outbreak's earliest days
China reported the first COVID-19 case in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019 and since then the disease has snowballed...
On WHO trip, China refused to hand over important data
The investigators, who recently returned from a fact-finding trip to the Chinese city of Wuhan, said disagreements over patient records and...
The WHO's China mission: Five questions still unanswered
WHO team members said they were granted full access to the sites and individuals they requested to visit.
EXPLAINER-The WHO's theories about the origins of COVID-19 after Wuhan probe
Peter Ben Embarek, the WHO's leading animal disease expert, said the team conducted scientific investigations into four main scenarios abou...
WHO official says Wuhan probe does not dramatically change picture of outbreak
Peter Ben Embarek, a WHO virus expert, also told a press briefing that work to identify the origins of the coronavirus points to a natural ...
WHO team probing Covid origins in China to brief media
"The international team working to understand the origins of the Covid-19 virus is completing its four weeks' stay in Wuhan, China and toge...
World Health Organisation team visits Wuhan market where first COVID-19 infections detected
The team arrived at Huanan amid heavy security, with additional barricades set up outside a high blue fence surrounding the market, and lef...
China warns against presumptions over COVID-19 origin as WHO experts begin probe in Wuhan
The 14-member World Health Organization team of international scientists, who had been confined to their hotel in Wuhan due to the quaranti...
Relative of virus victim asks to meet World Health Organization experts in Wuhan
China approved the visit by researchers under the auspices of the U.N. agency only after months of negotiations. It has not indicated wheth...
World Health Organization lists Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for emergency use
The World Health Organization on Thursday listed the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech for emergency use, saying the move opens the...
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