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FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020 file photo, Maria van Kerkhove, head of the Outbreak Investigation Task Force for the World Health Organization speaks during a news conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The World Health Organization on Monday Dec. 7, 2020 had an unwelcome but potentially life-saving message for the holiday season: Don't hug. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead on COVID-19, said most transmission happens among people who tend to spend a lot of time together sharing meals and indoor spaces, in workplaces or homes. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

UN health agency’s advice for the holidays: Don’t hug

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, World Health Organization President Tedros Adhanom speaks to the press during the World Health Organization conference on noncommunicable diseases in Montevideo, Uruguay. At a meeting of WHO’s member states, Monday Nov. 9, 2020, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he welcomed “any and all attempts to strengthen the organization...for the sake of the people we serve.&quot; as WHO faces calls for an independent review on its handling of the global COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico, FILE)

UN health chief: World can start dreaming of pandemic’s end

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Indians wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus wait in a queue to cast their votes during the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

UN chief: Vaccine can’t undo damage from global pandemic

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2019 file photo, people ride ski lifts as other skiers slide down the hill on a sunny day at the Faraya-Mzaar ski resort, in Faraya, northeast of Beirut, Lebanon. As several countries have suspended access to the ski slopes to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization’s emergencies chief said the risk of catching COVID-19 while skiing is likely minimal. “I suspect many people won’t be infected barreling down the slopes on their skis,” said Dr. Michael Ryan at a WHO news briefing on Monday, Nov, 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, file)

UN: Skiing may not spread coronavirus but slopes still risky

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Sitting for turkey? WHO reminds all to get more active

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, June 25, 2020 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), attends a press conference, at the (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Ethiopia’s government is accusing the head of the World Health Organization, a fellow Ethiopian, of lobbying neighboring countries to come to the aid of the country’s rebellious Tigray regional government with arms and other support. Ethiopia’s army chief asserts to reporters that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had urged unnamed neighbors to “oppose the war and for (the Tigray People’s Liberation Front) to get arms.” (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

WHO chief denies Ethiopia’s claim of backing Tigray region

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Internal email reveals 65 virus cases among WHO Geneva staff

By MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, second right, European Council President Charles Michel, right, Senegal's President Macky Sall, second left, and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva attend The Paris Peace Forum at The Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

Europe, Gates pledge funds to get vaccines tor poor nations

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FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, March 9, 2020, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, centre, speaks during a news conference on updates regarding on the coronavirus COVID-19, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Accompanying Tedros are Michael Ryan, left, executive director of WHO's Health Emergencies program, and Maria van Kerkhove, right, technical lead of WHO's Health Emergencies program. The way WHO handled the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic is under scrutiny, facing calls for the U.N. health agency to be overhauled and WHO has bowed to demands for an independent review. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone FILE via AP)

Recordings reveal WHO’s analysis of pandemic in private

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2020, file photo, a worker wearing gloves, and other PPE holds a tablet computer as he waits to check people at a King County coronavirus testing site in Auburn, Wash., south of Seattle. The latest surge in U.S. coronavirus cases appears to be larger and more widespread than the two previous ones, and it is all but certain to get worse. But experts say there are also reasons to think the nation is better able to deal with the virus than before, with the availability of better treatments, wider testing and perhaps greater political will. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

US: WHO not sharing enough info about China virus probe

By JAMEY KEATEN and MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the United Nations, Volkan Bozkir, President of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, addresses the annual meeting of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Group of Friends during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at UN headquarters in New York. (Manuel Elias/UN Photo via AP)

UN summit in December to push action on COVID-19 pandemic

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 25, 2020, file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), attends a press conference, at its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Tedros says he will self-quarantine after being identified as a contact of a person who tested positive for COVID-19. He wrote on Twitter late Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020, that he is “well and without symptoms” but will self-quarantine in “coming days, in line with WHO protocols, and work from home.” (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

WHO chief Tedros to quarantine after contact gets COVID-19

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, German Health Minister Jens Spahn attends the weekly government cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin. Spahn said Friday Oct. 30, 2020, that World Health Organisation (WHO) should receive more political support and financial backing for its international efforts to manage acute health crises, and given greater powers to independently investigate virus outbreaks. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, FILE)

EU: WHO should have more power to investigate outbreaks

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

A health official from the district office wearing protective gear, walks near a banner showing a precaution against the coronavirus in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

The Latest: India’s downward trend in new cases continues

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FILE In this file photo dated Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, World Health organization Director for Europe Hans Kluge arrives for a press conference in Rome, Italy. During a meeting with European health ministers on Thursday Oct. 29, 2020, WHO’s European regional director Dr. Hans Kluge said the region has now reported more than 10 million coronavirus cases and again saw the highest-ever weekly incidence of cases, with more than 1.5 million confirmed cases last week. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, FILE)

WHO: Europe now has more than 10 million COVID-19 cases

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Two city police officers patrol the Navigli area, a popular evening spot of restaurants and pubs bordering canals in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Authorities in regions including Italy's three largest cities have imposed curfews in a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19, as many of the cases in Lombardy's surging outbreak have occurred in Milan. On Thursday, an overnight curfew takes effect in the city, known for its lively night-time bar scene, and the rest of the region, as authorities try to slow the spread of the contagion. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

The Latest: Mexico’s Chihuahua border state back in lockdown

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A COVID-19 patient is being tended to prior to being airlifted with the helicopter from FlevoZiekenhuis, or FlevoHospital, in Almere, Netherlands, Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. In the latest sign of the scale of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping across Europe, a helicopter started airlifting COVID-19 patients from the Netherlands to an intensive care unit in the German city of Muenster.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch hospital airlifts patients to Germany amid virus surge

By PETER DEJONG and MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

FILE - This Tuesday, April 7, 2020, file photo shows a bottle of hydroxychloroquine tablets in Texas City, Texas. The U.N. health agency says the world's largest randomized trial of COVID-19 treatments found “conclusive evidence” that a repurposed malaria drug that U.S. authorities have made a pillar of treatment and President Donald Trump has touted has little or no effect on severe cases. The World Health Organization announced Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, the long-awaited results of its six-month “Solidarity Therapeutics Trial” that endeavored to see if existing drugs might have an effect on the coronavirus. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

WHO study finds remdesivir didn’t help COVID-19 patients

By JAMEY KEATEN and MARILYNN MARCHIONE - Associated Press

A health worker makes a heart sign while she and her fellow workers celebrate as the last three patients are released from a field hospital at the National Stadium Mane Garrincha, after recuperating from COVID-19, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

The Latest: New Mexico sets another one-day COVID-19 record

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In this photo released by WHO, World Health Organisation on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, wearing a mask to protect against coronavirus, gestures during a special session on the COVID-19 respnse. The head of emergencies at the World Health Organization says its “best estimates” indicate that roughly 1 in 10 people worldwide may have been infected by the coronavirus. (Christopher Black/WHO via AP)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s distortions on WHO and lockdowns

By JAMEY KEATEN and HOPE YEN - Associated Press