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Guinea launches Ebola vaccination drive in country’s south

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Inoculation campaign gets under way in Gouecke where several cases of the deadly disease have been detected.
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WHO team appears to rule out Chinese lab as source of coronavirus

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Dr. Peter Ben Embarek, a World Health Organization expert who is part of the team investigating the origins of the novel coronavirus, says it is 'extremely unlikely' the virus came from a lab in Wuhan, China.
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Senegal’s storage challenges limit COVID vaccine options

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Al Jazeera talk to doctors in Senegal about the challenges of getting coronavirus vaccines to its most remote villages.
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WHO team mum after visit to China's Wuhan Institute of Virology

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A special team from the World Health Organization has visited China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, a key site in their search for the origins of the coronavirus. The team did not speak to waiting journalists after the visit.
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Global number of COVID cases surpasses 100 million

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Pandemic continues to grow as variants pose new challenges amid concerns over supply and distribution of vaccines.
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Guinea Ebola death toll rises to five as vaccine roll-out begins

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Government tracking down people who potentially had contact with Ebola victims and will rush vaccines to affected areas.
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‘Wildly unfair’: UN boss says 10 nations used 75% of all vaccines

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Antonio Guterres urges wealthy nations to lead global effort to ensure people in every country get inoculated for COVID as soon as possible.
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WHO says new U.K. studies confirm variant of COVID-19 more transmissible

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The World Health Organization says a third round of U.K. studies related to a variant of the coronavirus in Britain confirms it is more transmissible and also that infected people have a higher viral load than with the original virus.
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WHO delegate to China says they may not find coronavirus origin on this trip

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A member of the World Health Organization's team heading to Wuhan, China, to try to find the origin of the novel coronavirus said he doesn't see limitations on research, but also doesn't expect this trip will reveal the source of the...
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WHO team arrives in China to investigate coronavirus origin

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A team of international scientists, led by the World Health Organization, is now in Wuhan, China, to gather evidence about the novel coronavirus and to speak more closely with Chinese researchers.
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WHO chief pleads with weary world to help break COVID-19 transmission

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As the global death toll from the coronavirus pushed past 2 million, the head of the World Health Organization urged people to use the tools they have to curb the virus and lift the burden on health workers.
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WHO advisory group offers some flexibility on vaccine timing

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The head of an expert advisory group to the World Health Organization said the second shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine should be given within 28 days but there is some room for flexibility.
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‘The world was not prepared’: WHO interim pandemic report

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As the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage the world, the World Health Organization released an interim report on lessons learned. And it's not flattering toward the WHO itself, China or even Canada.
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Cuba's COVID success story

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Latin America in the region with the highest The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Latin America harder and longer than any other region, but there is one country that has been the exception.
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WHO research on U.K. COVID-19 variant focuses on 3 key areas

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World Health Organization technical lead Dr. Maria Van Kherkove says U.K. researchers studying the coronavirus variant are focusing on transmissibilty, severity and antibody response. She said they're trying to determine if the apparent...
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EU sets coronavirus vaccine export controls

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European Union trade commissioner says monitoring and controls of exports would initially last until the end of March.
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WHO needs $4.3 billion to buy vaccines for poor countries

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The World Health Organization is urging countries to help fill a funding gap of $4.3 billion to help buy COVID-19 vaccines for poor- and middle-income countries.
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WHO warns COVID-19 vaccine not enough to stop virus

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People must stick to public health measures to control the coronavirus, even as a vaccine rolls out, according to Mike Ryan, chief of the World Health Organization's Emergencies Programme. 'Vaccines do not equal zero COVID,' he said.  
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COVID-19 cases rise, economies struggle in Latin America

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Latin American countries compete for vaccine they hope will quash pandemic and revive their ailing economies
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No need to break a sweat to increase pandemic activity, WHO says

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New activity guidelines from the World Health Organization urge people to start moving more during the pandemic. But it isn’t necessarily recommending a sweaty workout, just more activity in general.
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Consider COVID-19 risks of holiday celebrations, urges WHO chief

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'We all need to consider whose life we might be gambling with' during holiday celebrations because of the coronavirus, says World Health Organization director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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No excuse for inaction on COVID-19: WHO head

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World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned countries that letting COVID-19 run unchecked is like 'playing with fire.'
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Rush for top COVID-19 vaccines leaves poorer nations exposed

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UK, US, EU and Japan pre-order just over half of available doses, leaving Africa, Asia and other countries unprotected.
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3-layer masks now recommended for COVID-19

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Canada’s top public health doctor now recommends three-layer non-medical masks with a filter layer to prevent the spread of COVID-19, something the World Health Organization has been recommending for months.