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WHO Report: COVID Likely 1st Jumped Into Humans From Animals
A joint World Health Organization-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak of the coronavirus is “extremely unlikely.”
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1 Report, 4 Theories: Scientists Mull Clues on Virus' Origin
A team of international and Chinese scientists is poised to report on its joint search for the origins of the coronavirus that sparked a pandemic after it was first detected in China over a year ago
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WHO Scientist: ‘There Is No Documented Death That Is Linked to a COVID Vaccine'
The World Health Organization’s chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan spoke on Tuesday after several nations made the decision to halt use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
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The Day That Changed Us All: A Year of COVID-19 in Photos
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic following weeks of community spread from China to the rest of the world. The weeks and months that followed that announcement changed the world as the pandemic made its way into every corner of the globe.
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Time to Double Down — Not Let Up, WHO Chief Scientist Warns as COVID Cases Rise
Countries cannot let their guard down and must ramp up efforts to contain COVID-19 in the face of more new cases, said Dr. Soumya Swaminathan of the WHO.
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The Day Everything Changed: A Timeline of March 11, 2020
A Congressional hearing, a declaration by the World Health Organization and a canceled basketball game were a wake up call to Americans as the realities of COVID-19 began to spread across the world. This is a timeline of events that took place on March 11, 2020.
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Biden Rolling Out Plan for $4 Billion Global Vaccine Effort
White House officials say Joe Biden will use his first big presidential moment on the global stage at Friday’s Group of Seven meeting to announce that the U.S. will soon begin releasing $4 billion for an international effort to bolster the purchase and distribution of coronavirus vaccine for poor nations.
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EXPLAINER: What the WHO Coronavirus Experts Learned in Wuhan
A World Health Organization team is leaving China after gaining some new insights into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that has now killed more than 2.3 million people worldwide
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WHO Team: Coronavirus Unlikely to Have Leaked From China Lab
A team of international and Chinese scientists looking for the origins of COVID-19 says the coronavirus most likely appeared in humans after jumping from an animal
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WHO Says Covid ‘Most Likely' Originated in Animals and Spread to Humans, Dismisses Lab Leak Theory
Scientists have been working in the Chinese city of Wuhan for the past four weeks as part of their search for clues to the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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WHO Investigators Visit Research Center in Wuhan
Investigators from the World Health Organization visited a research center in Wuhan on Wednesday.
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WHO Team in Wuhan Visits Disease Control Centers
A World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province where the outbreak emerged
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WHO Team in Wuhan Departs Quarantine for COVID Origins Study
A World Health Organization team has emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic
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Biden's US Revives Support for WHO, Reversing Trump Retreat
President Joe Biden’s top adviser on the pandemic says the United States will again fund the World Health Organization and join its consortium aimed at sharing coronavirus vaccines fairly around the globe
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Bill Gates Is the Top Target for Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories
Billionaire Bill Gates has been outspoken about steps global leaders need to take to combat the spread of coronavirus. Now, an analysis of TV and social media by The New York Times and Zignal Labs shows that Gates is the leading target of conspiracy theorists who are making false claims linking the billionaire to the deadly pandemic.
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Japan Has Found a New Covid Variant. Here's How It Compares to Virus Strains in the UK, South Africa
The identification of a new Covid variant comes as countries scramble to contain two other contagious strains that have emerged in the U.K. and South Africa.
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China: WHO Experts Arriving Thursday for Virus Origins Probe
China says a group of experts from the World Health Organization is due to arrive Thursday for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic
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WHO to Sift Chinese Samples, Data in Hunt for Virus Origins
A scientist taking part in the World Health Organization’s mission track down the origins of the coronavirus says they plan to sift through samples and medical data from China to help determine where the bug came from
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Santa is Immune From Coronavirus, Will Deliver Presents, WHO Says
The World Health Organization says Santa Claus is immune from COVID-19 and will deliver presents on Christmas, but stressed that the children of the world physically distance themselves from others and listen to their parents.
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WHO Recommends Against Making Vaccine Mandatory
“I don’t think we envision any countries creating a mandate for vaccination,” Kate O’Brien, director of the World Health Organization’s immunization department, said Monday.