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GENEVA, Switzerland -- The most urgent focus now for the World Health Organization (WHO) is ensuring that all countries have access to vaccines on an equitable basis, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday.

HEFEI, Jan. 10 – As his conversation in a mountain village museum proceeded, all the familiar laughs that Zimbabwean youth Albert Mhangami saw during his trip flashed into his mind, warmly and inspiringly.

WASHINGTON – Anthony Fauci, a top US infectious disease expert, said on Friday that he has accepted President-elect Joe Biden's offer to be his chief medical adviser.

Diego Maradona Jr., son of the late Argentine football great Diego Armando Maradona, bid an emotional farewell to his father on Friday, with a moving message on Instagram.

The 17th China-ASEAN Expo scheduled from Nov. 27 to 30 in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, will hold a slew of online and offline activities.

The number of COVID-19 cases reported worldwide has surpassed 60 million as of Thursday afternoon (17:38 GMT), reaching 60,074,174, with 1,416,292 coronavirus-related deaths, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO).

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on Monday reiterated their commitment to pursuing free and open trade and investment as well as reinvigorating the efforts towards regional economic recovery and growth from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

LANZHOU -- A total of 6,620 people have been confirmed antibody-positive for brucella since contaminated factory exhaust caused infections in 2019 in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, local authorities told a press conference on Thursday.

NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 8 million on Friday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Global COVID-19 deaths surpassed 1.1 million on Friday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

LAGOS, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria has resumed yellow fever vaccination with safety measures against COVID-19, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

SINGAPORE, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- A group of researchers in Singapore will tap their artificial intelligence (AI) platform to evaluate 12 locally available drugs to derive a combination of drugs that can be used to treat COVID-19, local media reported on Friday.

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Flash floods in Cambodia have so far left 18 people dead and forced the evacuation of 25,192 people, Seak Vichet, a spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), said on Friday.

BERLIN, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- New COVID-19 infections in Germany kept climbing and reached a new record with 7,334 cases within one day, bringing the total number to 348,557, the national disease control agency Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Friday.

SANTIAGO, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Chilean Health Minister Enrique Paris said Friday that 13 regions in the country have shown a decrease in the number of new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past week.

UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said there is still no end in sight to the spread of COVID19 as he called for solidarity to fight the virus after deaths from the disease surpassed 1 million worldwide.

GENEVA, Switzerland -- Six COVID-19 vaccine candidates, including three from China, have entered phase-3 trials, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, United States -- The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on Thursday the start of a randomized, controlled clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of a treatment regimen consisting of the antiviral remdesivir plus the immunomodulator interferon beta-1a in COVID-19 patients.