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Liang Wannian, the Chinese co-leader of the joint China-WHO investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, speaks during a press conference in Beijing, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Chinese health officials pushed Wednesday for expanding the search for the origins of COVID-19 beyond China, one day after the release of a World Health Organization report on the issue. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China pushes to expand virus origin search beyond its border

By KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

Residents visit the Yangtze River in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Monday, March 29, 2021. (Chinatopix Via AP) ** FILE **

WHO report fails to quell questions over COVID-19 origins, possible lab leak

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this file photo dated Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, a Chinese journalist walks past the stage set for WHO-China Joint Study Press Conference near the end of the World Health Organization mission in Wuhan, central China. A lengthy written report published Thursday, March 25, 2021, from a team of international and Chinese scientists on a joint mission to Wuhan aims to help unearth the origins of the coronavirus since it was first detected in China more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

World leaders call for pandemic treaty, but short on details

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

European Council President Charles Michel speaks during an online joint press conference with Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)

The Latest: Wyoming governor sticks with ending mask mandate

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron attends a video conference of a EU summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, March 25, 2021. The looming third wave of coronavirus infections and Europe's struggle to mount a vaccination drive will dominate Thursday's EU video summit. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)

The Latest: Texas state judge upholds Austin’s mask mandate

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - 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 press conference held at the end of the WHO mission in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Chinese officials briefed diplomats Friday, March 26, 2021, on the ongoing research into the origin of COVID-19, ahead of the expected release of a long-awaited report from the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China outlines COVID-origin findings, ahead of WHO report

By KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

This file photo released on July 19, 2020, on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and his wife Asma voting at a polling station in the parliamentary elections, in Damascus, Syria. (Syrian Presidency via AP, File)

World health body plans to vaccinate 20% of Syrians in 2021

By BASSEM MROUE and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

WHO: Global coronavirus deaths rise for 1st time in 6 weeks

Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 file photo, Peter Ben Embarek of a World Health Organization team attends a joint press conference at the end of their mission to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Peter Ben Embarek, the head of a World Health Organization team, working with Chinese colleagues to finish a long-awaited report into the origins of the coronavirus, said in interviews on Wednesday and Thursday that the team hopes the report will be ready for release next week. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, file)

WHO expert: Virus study to have unanimity despite pressure

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 12, 2021, file photo, a health worker holds a bottle of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with name Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha written on it, at Bamrasnaradura Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. In recent days, countries including Denmark, Ireland and Thailand have temporarily suspended their use of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine after reports that some people who got a dose developed blood clots, even though there's no evidence that the shot was responsible. The European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization say the data available do not suggest the vaccine caused the clots. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

EXPLAINER: Why countries are halting the AstraZeneca shot

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative arrive at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia Monday, March 15, 2021. The first shipment of 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine will target the country's frontline workers, elderly and people with chronic health conditions, according to Somalia's Ministry of Health. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

WHO: Vaccine rollout unaffected by concerns over AstraZeneca

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

A healthcare worker administers a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to a woman at the Brussels Expo center in Brussels, Thursday, March 4, 2021. The Expo is one of the largest vaccination centers in Belgium. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Conflict grows between US and allies over vaccine supply

By ZEKE MILLER, RAF CASERT and and SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

In this Saturday, July 13, 2019, photo, health workers wearing protective suits tend to an Ebola victim kept in an isolation tent in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo. A top official at the World Health Organization has said on Friday, March 12, 2021 that a genetic analysis of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Guinea suggests it may have been sparked by a survivor of the devastating West Africa epidemic that ended five years ago. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) **FILE**

UN says Ebola in Guinea may be linked to 2014 outbreak

Associated Press

A young girl looks out the window of her room in the pediatric unit of the Robert Debre hospital, in Paris, France, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. A year into the coronavirus pandemic, increasing numbers of children are coming apart at the seams, their mental health shredded by the traumas of deaths, sickness and job losses in their families, the disruptions of lockdowns and curfews, and a deluge of anxieties poisoning their fragile young minds. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

The Latest: US health officials warn of false positives

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Trashelle Miro, Albertsons pharmacy manager, holds a vial of the Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at an Albertsons supermarket pharmacy in Las Vegas Thursday, March 11, 2021. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

WHO adds Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to arsenal

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

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)

A year on, WHO still struggling to manage pandemic response

By MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2020 file photo, Francesco Zambon, lead author of a withdrawn WHO report into Italy's coronavirus response speaks with The Associated Press in Rome. Zambon said Thursday, March 11, 2021, his resignation was effective March 31. He declined further comment other than to say it was “humanly and professionally” impossible for him to continue working for WHO. Zambon had filed an internal ethics complaint with the WHO in May after he said he was pressured by a senior WHO official to falsify data to obscure that Italy hadn’t updated its influenza pandemic preparedness plan since 2006. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

WHO whistleblower who denounced spiked Italy report resigns

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 7, 2021 file photo, people crowd Via del Corso shopping street in Rome, following the ease of restriction measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. Europe recorded 1 million new COVID-19 cases last week, an increase of 9% from the previous week and ending a six-week decline, WHO said Thursday, March 4, 2021. The so-called UK variant is of greatest concern in the 53 countries monitored by WHO in Europe. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Europe staggers as infectious variants power virus surge

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19. Scientists say it's still too early to predict the future of the coronavirus, but many doubt it will ever go away entirely. (Hannah A. Bullock, Azaibi Tamin/CDC via AP)

Virus experts demand new probe into origins of COVID-19

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

First COVAX vaccines arrive in Cambodia from India

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press