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A senior Chinese health official says China cannot accept the World Health Organization’s plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19

December 2020 marked one year since Wuhan, China, reported the world’s first cases of COVID-19. Now, life in the city is largely back to normal.

The head of the World Health Organization has acknowledged it was premature to rule out a potential link between the COVID-19 pandemic and a laboratory leak

The World Health Organization has decided to assign different Greek alphabet letters like Alpha, Beta and Gamma to each new coronavirus mutation in an effort to decrease stigma.

Several health experts and scientists have used the term “herd immunity” to describe the overall immunity of a population against a virus like COVID-19. But what exactly is herd immunity, and how is it achieved? Many have questioned whether the phenomenon could be the key to ending the coronavirus pandemic, with some speculating if the United States could reach the…

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.

NBC News senior medical correspondent Dr. John Torres writes about his search for vaccine certification.

There’s a lot of talk these days about how herd immunity will be our ticket out of the pandemic. Here’s what you need to know about what herd immunity is and how we get it.

Investigators from the World Health Organization visited a research center in Wuhan on Wednesday.

World Health Organization investigators have visited a research center in the central Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus

A World Health Organization team looking into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited the food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan that was linked to many early infections

A World Health Organization team is visiting a hospital where China says the first COVID-19 patients were treated more than a year ago.

China is trying to spread doubt about the effectiveness of Western vaccines and the origin of the coronavirus as a World Health Organization-selected team of scientists is in the city where the pandemic began

A global team of researchers has arrived in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to investigate its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries

Emails seen by The Associated Press show that an official who coordinated work on a withdrawn World Health Organization report into Italy’s coronavirus response warned his bosses that people could die if the agency allowed political concerns to suppress the document

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

“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.

Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, and the World Health Organization has mixed news about the progress made in fighting the disease.

The head of the World Health Organization says he will self-quarantine after being identified as a contact of a person who tested positive for COVID-19

Just as millions of children are heading back to school, the World Health Organization says those aged 6 to 11 should wear masks in some cases to help fight the spread of coronavirus. The recommendations presented Monday follow the widespread belief that children under 12 are not considered as likely to propagate the virus as much as adults. Children in…