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In this Jan. 14, 2021, file photo, a worker in protective coverings directs members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team on their arrival at the airport in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday, Oct. 14, warned against what it called possible “political manipulation” of a renewed probe by the World Health Organization into the origins of the coronavirus, while saying it would support the international body's efforts. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China warns against ‘manipulation’ of WHO virus probe

In this file photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, health officials prepare to vaccinate residents of the Malawi village of Tomali, where young children become test subjects for the world's first vaccine against malaria. The World Health Organization recommended that the world’s first malaria vaccine be given to children across Africa, in a move officials hope will spur the stalled progress against efforts to curb the spread of the parasitic disease. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

U.N. endorses world’s 1st malaria vaccine as ‘historic moment’

Fu Cong, a Foreign Ministry director-general, speaks at a briefing for foreign journalists at the Foreign Ministry in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. China went on the offensive Wednesday ahead of the release of a U.S. intelligence report on the origins of the coronavirus, bringing out the senior official to accuse the United States of politicizing the issue by seeking to blame China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Experts on WHO team say search for COVID-19 origins has stalled

In this file photo dated Tuesday, July 14, 2020, Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends the Bastille Day military parade, in Paris. The head of the World Health Organization has appealed on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, for a moratorium on administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines, to ensure doses are available in countries where few people have yet received their first shots. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

WHO seeks COVID-19 vaccine booster moratorium to ensure enough doses

In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, a security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province. A member of the expert team investigating the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan says the Chinese side granted full access to all sites and personnel they requested to visit and meet with. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) **FILE**

‘Shocked’: China blasts WHO over plan for COVID-19 origin study

In this Monday, May 24, 2021 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks at the WHO headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland. The head of the World Health Organization said Thursday, July 15 that he is asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the coronavirus and acknowledged it was premature to rule out that the pandemic may have been linked to a laboratory leak. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

WHO chief admits it was ‘premature’ to rule out COVID lab leak

FILE - In this Sunday, July 11, 2021 file photo, a doctor fills a syringe with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Kabul, Afghanistan. Top officials at the World Health Organization said Monday, July 12 there is not enough evidence to show that third doses of coronavirus vaccines are needed and appealed for the scarce shots to be shared with poor countries who have yet to immunize their populations instead of being used by rich countries as boosters. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, file)

WHO: Rich countries should donate vaccines, not use boosters

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 news conference at the end of the WHO mission in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. As the World Health Organization draws up plans for the next phase of its probe of how the coronavirus pandemic started, an increasing number of scientists say the U.N. agency isn’t up to the task and shouldn’t be the one to investigate. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Experts question if WHO should lead pandemic origins probe

In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, about the update on WHO Ebola operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

WHO chief concedes ‘slow’ response to Congo sex abuse claims

In this Thursday, May 20, 2021, photo, President Joe Biden speaks in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington. Biden is asking U.S. intelligence agencies to “redouble” efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. He says there is insufficient evidence to conclude “whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident.” (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Inside the Ring: Biden team shuts down State Department’s COVID-19 probe

In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, a security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province. A member of the expert team investigating the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan says the Chinese side granted full access to all sites and personnel they requested to visit and meet with. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) **FILE**

Biden to intelligence community: ‘Redouble efforts’ on COVID-19 origins

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)

WHO chief: We must vaccinate 10% of the global population by September, 30% by December

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In this Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 file photo, a medical worker poses with a vial of the Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine in Belgrade, Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, file) **FILE**

Sinopharm, China’s COVID-19 vaccine, wins WHO approval for emergency use

In this Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 file photo, a medical worker poses with a vial of the Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine in Belgrade, Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, file) **FILE**

WHO panel OKs emergency use of China’s Sinopharm vaccine

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The long wait has frustrated many Russians, so when the WHO announced yet another delay in September, they started looking for solutions elsewhere.

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LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization on Wednesday endorsed the world's first malaria vaccine and said it should be given to children across Africa in the hope that it will spur stalled efforts to curb the spread of the parasitic disease.

U.N. endorses world's 1st malaria vaccine as 'historic moment' →

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