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Cuba has started selling its COVID-19 vaccines abroad. It insists its trials show they're safe and effective — so why hasn't the World Health Organization said so too?

The statement by World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus undermines a WHO report that concluded that a laboratory leak was “extremely unlikely.”

The COVID-19 curve is rising again after months of decline, driven by the delta variant, lagging vaccination rates and Fourth of July gatherings.

Leading virologists, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, are demanding a deeper probe into China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology as they try to identify the source of the deadly coronavirus.

A report that gathered data from 161 countries and areas paints a "horrifying picture," said WHO's director-general. And there's concern that the pandemic has made matters worse.

Six takeaways from discussions at the annual meeting of the World Health Organization's Executive Board.

Scientists have found that some people have antibodies against parts of their own immune system, allowing viruses to multiply rapidly.

Speaking at a briefing in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says: "We all want this to be over. We all want to get on with our lives. But the hard reality is this is not even close to being over."

On Friday, President Trump said he would sever ties — and funding — to the World Health Organization because of its relationship with China. On Monday, WHO offers its first official response.

The House speaker criticized the president's effort to withhold funding for the World Health Organization. She said the administration is isolating itself amid a global health crisis.

The U.S. Embassy confirmed the 60-year-old's death in Wuhan, China. The death on Thursday was the first of an American from the virus.

The individual had returned to his home in Washington state after a visit to Wuhan, China, where the virus was discovered in December.