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In this Monday, March 9, 2020, file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, speaks during a news conference, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

A year on, WHO still struggling to manage pandemic response

By MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2020 file photo, Francesco Zambon, lead author of a withdrawn WHO report into Italy's coronavirus response speaks with The Associated Press in Rome. Zambon said Thursday, March 11, 2021, his resignation was effective March 31. He declined further comment other than to say it was “humanly and professionally” impossible for him to continue working for WHO. Zambon had filed an internal ethics complaint with the WHO in May after he said he was pressured by a senior WHO official to falsify data to obscure that Italy hadn’t updated its influenza pandemic preparedness plan since 2006. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

WHO whistleblower who denounced spiked Italy report resigns

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 7, 2021 file photo, people crowd Via del Corso shopping street in Rome, following the ease of restriction measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. Europe recorded 1 million new COVID-19 cases last week, an increase of 9% from the previous week and ending a six-week decline, WHO said Thursday, March 4, 2021. The so-called UK variant is of greatest concern in the 53 countries monitored by WHO in Europe. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Europe staggers as infectious variants power virus surge

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19. Scientists say it's still too early to predict the future of the coronavirus, but many doubt it will ever go away entirely. (Hannah A. Bullock, Azaibi Tamin/CDC via AP)

Virus experts demand new probe into origins of COVID-19

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

First COVAX vaccines arrive in Cambodia from India

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

In this Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 file photo, Michael Ryan, left, Executive Director of WHO's Health Emergencies programme, next to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, right, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses a press conference about the update on COVID-19 at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File) **FILE**

WHO must actually demonstrate independence from China

By Sen. Roger Marshall, M.D.; Sen. John Barrasso, M.D.; Rep. Andy Harris, M.D.; Rep. John Joyce and M.D.; and Rep. Brad Wenstrup D.P.M. - The Washington Times

A teddy bear hangs from a fence at a spring charms fair at the Dimitrie Gusti Village Museum in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

WHO: ‘Premature,’ ‘unrealistic’ COVID-19 will end soon

By MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Production personnel perform a visual inspection of filled vaccine vials inside the Incepta plant on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh Saturday Feb. 13, 2021. In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh's largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. Yet the factory is operating at just a quarter of its capacity. It is one of three factories that The Associated Press found on three continents whose owners say they could start producing hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccines on short notice if only they had the blueprints and technical know-how. (AP Photo/Al-emrun Garjon)

Countries urge drug companies to share vaccine know-how

By MARIA CHENG and LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

Ivory Coast 2nd country to receive COVID vaccines via COVAX

By TOUSSAINT N'GOTTA - Associated Press

This photograph released by UNICEF Wednesday Feb. 24, 2021 shows the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the COVAX Facility arriving at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana. As the coronavirus pandemic exploded worldwide last April, global organizations banded together to help ensure vaccines would be distributed fairly. But the COVAX initiative has been dogged by shortages of cash and supplies as well as logistical hurdles, and only on Wednesday did the first vaccines bought by program arrive in Ghana. (Francis Kokoroko/UNICEF via AP)

EXPLAINER: UN vaccine plan is underway, but problems remain

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, and Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, left on the screen, brief the media on a virtual joint news conference at Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

UN to rich nations: Don’t undermine COVAX vaccine program

By GEIR MOULSON and JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

WHO says more than 11,000 Ebola vaccines will go to Guinea

By CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a vial of the AstraZeneca vaccine during a visit to a coronavirus vaccination centre at the Health and Well-being Centre in Orpington, south-east London, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. (Jeremy Selwyn/Pool Photo via AP)

U.N. approves AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

Associated Press

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The superspreaders behind top COVID-19 conspiracy theories

By DAVID KLEPPER and FARNOUSH AMIRI and BEATRICE DUPUY - Associated Press

In this March 19, 2020, file photo, biological science specialists, background, wear biosafety protective clothing for handling viral diseases at U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

COVID-19 conspiracy shows vast reach of Chinese disinformation

By Erika Kinetz - Associated Press

EXPLAINER: UN vaccine plan for poor countries nears rollout

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

The World Health Organization team is briefed outside of the Huanan Seafood Market on the third day of their field visit in Wuhan, China, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021.A member of the team said at the end of the visit that some animals at the market have been traced to farms or traders in regions that are home to bats that carry a virus related to the one that causes COVID-19. That finding could put renewed focus on the market. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China fires back at US allegations of lack of transparency

Associated Press

A woman wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus takes a photo under red lanterns decorated along an alley in celebration of the Lunar New Year in Beijing, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. China appeared to be on pace for a slower than normal Lunar New Year travel rush this year after authorities discouraged people from traveling over the holiday to help maintain the nation's control over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

White House warns WHO not to be influenced by China on virus origin probe

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

People wearing face masks wait for boarding at the Noi Bai airport in Hanoi, Vietnam, Friday, Feb.12, 2020. Fresh COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam has slowed down business and travel during the popular lunar new year festival. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

WHO chief warns of complacency as global virus cases drop

Associated Press

African nations still encouraged to use AstraZeneca vaccine

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press