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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, June 14, 2020, people, wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus, sign to support potential presidential candidates in Minsk, Belarus. The World Health Organization and the European Union announced Thursday Feb. 11, 2021, the launch of a 40-million euro (dollars 48.5 million) program to help deploy COVID-19 vaccines in six former Soviet republics including Belarus. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

WHO, EU launch vaccine rollout program in 6 ex-Soviet states

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African nations still encouraged to use AstraZeneca vaccine

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

A nurse holds a dose of AstraZeneca vaccine before administering it to a tourist resort employee north of Port Louis, Mauritius, Wednesday Feb. 10, 2021. Three tourist hotels have been selected as vaccination centers as the Indian ocean island kicks its COVID-19 vaccination campaign. (Sumeet Mudhoo/L'express Maurice via AP)

WHO expert group recommends use of AstraZeneca vaccine

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Marion Koopmans, left, wears her mask as Peter Daszak shakes hands with a Chinese staff member outside their hotel before leaving for the airport at the end of their WHO mission to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

EXPLAINER: What the WHO coronavirus experts learned in Wuhan

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA and KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

A woman wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus visits shrine in Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

The Latest: Jump in cases worries S. Korea as holiday starts

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Peter Ben Embarek, of the World Health Organization team holds up a chart showing pathways of transmission of the virus during a joint press conference held at the end of the WHO mission in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

WHO team: Coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Seniors wait to be vaccinated with China's Sinovac Biotech COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center set up at the Carmela Carvajal school in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Chile is starting its vaccination plan for the general population on Wednesday, starting with seniors over 90 and health workers. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

The Latest: Mexico’s president has negative antigen test

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A pharmacist fills a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines at a pop-up vaccination site at the God's Battalion of Prayer Church, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. SOMOS and Elderplan volunteer nurses are expected to vaccinate up to 500 older New Yorkers who attend the church or live in surrounding areas. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

145 countries to receive COVID-19 shots for vulnerable groups

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

Security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

WHO investigators finally allowed into lab at center of COVID-19 controversy

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times