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WHO chief says all coronavirus origins hypotheses 'need further study'

The WHO's chief said Monday that all hypotheses on the COVID-19 pandemic's origins remained open and needed further study, having read the report from international experts' mission to Wuhan."All hyp

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Spain suspends use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine for 15 days

Multiple countries in Europe have suspended the use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine. /Joel Saget/AFP Spain's health ministry on Monday announced the immediate suspension of AstraZeneca's COV

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WHO Director condemns killing of an Italian Ambassador in DR Congo

The World Health Organization Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has condemned the attack on a humanitarian convoy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which left three people dead, including

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WHO expert team says 'learned a lot' from Wuhan study

The WHO expert team said on Friday that they have learned a lot about the origins of the SARS-CoV-2.The team had been in Wuhan since January 14 for a joint study on the coronavirus's origins. The exp

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WHO team assessing Chinese vaccines ahead of potential emergency use

A World Health Organization (WHO) team is in China currently working with producers of the Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines to assess compliance with international quality manufacturing practices ahead

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Xi to deliver speech at opening ceremony of WHA session

Chinese President Xi Jinping will deliver a speech Monday at the opening ceremony of the 73rd session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) via video link at the invitati

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WHO chief says 'slow, steady lifting' of coronavirus lockdowns key

FILE PHOTO: Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus (COVID-2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/

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Urgent: WHO announces "landmark" int'l collaboration to speed up COVID-19 vaccines development

The World Health Organization (WHO) is launching a "landmark" international collaboration to accelerate development, production and equitable distribution of vaccines against COVID-19, the UN body's

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China donates additional $30 million to WHO

The headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, March 22, 2016. /VCG China has decided to donate another 30 million U.S. dollars to the World Health Organizatio

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WHO chief: "nothing hidden from the U.S., from day one" about COVID-19

Nothing in the response to COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO) has been "hidden from the U.S., from day one," with U.S. professionals playing an important role in its anti-epidemic fight,

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Supporting WHO means to safeguard multilateralism: Chinese FM

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Bin

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COVID-19 cases top 1 mln globally: WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Xinhua/Chen Junxia) More than one million confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported to the World Health Organization

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Xi says appreciative of WHO chief's efforts for global COVID-19 fight

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday said he appreciates World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' efforts to advance the global battl

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WHO raises COVID-19 risk to "very high" at global level

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday raised the risk assessment of COVID-19 from high to very high at global level. "Our epidemiologists have been monitoring these developments continuously,

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WHO chief confident in China's epidemic prevention and control ability

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks at a press conference after the WHO emergency committee's meeting on the novel coronavirus in China at its

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WHO chief confident in China's epidemic prevention and control ability

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks at a press conference after the WHO emergency committee's meeting on the novel coronavirus in China at its