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WHO urges pause in market sale of captured live wild animals

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FILE - In this April 8, 2021, file photo, a woman at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, receives a dose of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative. COVAX is providing vaccines to countries lacking the clout to negotiate on their own for scarce supplies, but in the past two weeks only 2 million doses have been cleared for shipment to 92 countries. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Stalled at first jab: Vaccine shortages hit poor countries

By LORI HINNANT and MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2020 file photo, Francesco Zambon, lead author of a withdrawn World Health Organization (WHO) report into Italy's coronavirus response, is interviewed by The Associated Press in Rome. Italian prosecutors formally accused top WHO official Ranieri Guerra of lying to them about a spiked U.N. report into Italy’s coronavirus response, revealing private communications Friday that are likely to embarrass the U.N. agency. Emails show that Guerra tried to have one of the main report authors, Dr. Francesco Zambon, alter the data in the report to say that Italy had “updated&quot; its pandemic plan when it had not. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, file)

Italy prosecutors: WHO exec lied about spiked virus report

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Patricia Sain visits with her husband Clyde Sain, who is in long term care, at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus, N.J., Thursday, April 8, 2021. This was the first visit since early March 2020 that Patricia has been able to touch her husband and visit with him indoors. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

No region in the world spared as virus cases, deaths surge

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

People wearing face masks pass by a banner displaying precautions against the coronavirus on a street in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 5, 2021. The banner reads &quot; We can overcome Corona 19.&quot; (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

The Latest: N Korea says it still has no coronavirus cases

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Liang Wannian, the Chinese co-leader of the joint China-WHO investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, speaks during a press conference in Beijing, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Chinese health officials pushed Wednesday for expanding the search for the origins of COVID-19 beyond China, one day after the release of a World Health Organization report on the issue. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China pushes to expand virus origin search beyond its border

By KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

European Council President Charles Michel speaks during an online joint press conference with Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)

The Latest: Wyoming governor sticks with ending mask mandate

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this file photo dated Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, a Chinese journalist walks past the stage set for WHO-China Joint Study Press Conference near the end of the World Health Organization mission in Wuhan, central China. A lengthy written report published Thursday, March 25, 2021, from a team of international and Chinese scientists on a joint mission to Wuhan aims to help unearth the origins of the coronavirus since it was first detected in China more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

World leaders call for pandemic treaty, but short on details

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

Residents visit the Yangtze River in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Monday, March 29, 2021. (Chinatopix Via AP) ** FILE **

WHO report fails to quell questions over COVID-19 origins, possible lab leak

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

French President Emmanuel Macron attends a video conference of a EU summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, March 25, 2021. The looming third wave of coronavirus infections and Europe's struggle to mount a vaccination drive will dominate Thursday's EU video summit. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)

The Latest: Texas state judge upholds Austin’s mask mandate

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2021, file photo, Peter Ben Embarek of the World Health Organization team holds up a chart showing pathways of transmission of the virus during a joint press conference held at the end of the WHO mission in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Chinese officials briefed diplomats Friday, March 26, 2021, on the ongoing research into the origin of COVID-19, ahead of the expected release of a long-awaited report from the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China outlines COVID-origin findings, ahead of WHO report

By KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

This file photo released on July 19, 2020, on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and his wife Asma voting at a polling station in the parliamentary elections, in Damascus, Syria. (Syrian Presidency via AP, File)

World health body plans to vaccinate 20% of Syrians in 2021

By BASSEM MROUE and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

WHO: Global coronavirus deaths rise for 1st time in 6 weeks

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 file photo, Peter Ben Embarek of a World Health Organization team attends a joint press conference at the end of their mission to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Peter Ben Embarek, the head of a World Health Organization team, working with Chinese colleagues to finish a long-awaited report into the origins of the coronavirus, said in interviews on Wednesday and Thursday that the team hopes the report will be ready for release next week. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, file)

WHO expert: Virus study to have unanimity despite pressure

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 12, 2021, file photo, a health worker holds a bottle of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with name Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha written on it, at Bamrasnaradura Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. In recent days, countries including Denmark, Ireland and Thailand have temporarily suspended their use of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine after reports that some people who got a dose developed blood clots, even though there's no evidence that the shot was responsible. The European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization say the data available do not suggest the vaccine caused the clots. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

EXPLAINER: Why countries are halting the AstraZeneca shot

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative arrive at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia Monday, March 15, 2021. The first shipment of 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine will target the country's frontline workers, elderly and people with chronic health conditions, according to Somalia's Ministry of Health. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

WHO: Vaccine rollout unaffected by concerns over AstraZeneca

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

In this Saturday, July 13, 2019, photo, health workers wearing protective suits tend to an Ebola victim kept in an isolation tent in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo. A top official at the World Health Organization has said on Friday, March 12, 2021 that a genetic analysis of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Guinea suggests it may have been sparked by a survivor of the devastating West Africa epidemic that ended five years ago. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) **FILE**

UN says Ebola in Guinea may be linked to 2014 outbreak

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Trashelle Miro, Albertsons pharmacy manager, holds a vial of the Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at an Albertsons supermarket pharmacy in Las Vegas Thursday, March 11, 2021. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

WHO adds Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to arsenal

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

A young girl looks out the window of her room in the pediatric unit of the Robert Debre hospital, in Paris, France, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. A year into the coronavirus pandemic, increasing numbers of children are coming apart at the seams, their mental health shredded by the traumas of deaths, sickness and job losses in their families, the disruptions of lockdowns and curfews, and a deluge of anxieties poisoning their fragile young minds. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

The Latest: US health officials warn of false positives

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A healthcare worker administers a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to a woman at the Brussels Expo center in Brussels, Thursday, March 4, 2021. The Expo is one of the largest vaccination centers in Belgium. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Conflict grows between US and allies over vaccine supply

By ZEKE MILLER, RAF CASERT and and SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press