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The WHO’s international team is expected to arrive on Thursday in the Chinese city of Wuhan to search for the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the source of the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said reports of new variants of the COVID-19 virus in South Africa and the United Kingdom, are “natural and expected,” adding that “there is no evidence so far that it is more likely to cause severe disease or mortality.” WHO

A new study by the WHO and a research consortium led by Ghent University and the University of Copenhagen, including almost 30 thousand migrants and refugees in close to 200 countries found that “people living on the streets and in asylum centers are less likely to seek care if they have symptoms of COVID-19.” WHO

Speaking from the floor of the Bundestag, the German Parliament, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres commended “the no-nonsense, steady, compassionate and wise guiding hand of Chancellor Merkel and her government” in their COVID-19 pandemic response. BUNDESTAG TV

The President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Munir Akram, said that as the COVID-19 pandemic toll rises, “the poorest countries and the poorest people in those countries have been hit hardest." He stressed that “we must ensure that this vaccine becomes available to everyone, everywhere, rich or poor, man or woman.” UNIFEED

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for global solidarity and greater international cooperation and must be turned into an opportunity for fundamental change, Secretary-General António Guterres said in a keynote address to the Nobel Peace Prize Forum. UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters that the “immediate priority” in Ethiopia was “the well-being of the people of Tigray and ensuring those in need urgently receive humanitarian assistance,” as well as “ the swift resumption of the rule of law, in a secure environment and in full respect for human rights, paving the way for a true and lasting reconciliation.” UNIFEED

COVID-19 pandemic “seems generally under control” in the Central Africa region thanks to early measures enforced by the governments to limit the spread of the virus, which are now paying “a high socioeconomic cost,” a top UN official told the Security Council in a briefing on Wednesday. UNIFEED

WHO warned on Friday that those countries with current high levels of coronavirus transmission, “are going to have to sustain very strong control measures.” Otherwise, the COVID-19 “will blow out of control” in some countries and they will risk “ongoing epidemic yo-yo situation through 2021.” WHO

French President Emmanuel Macron proposed a donation mechanism so that “a portion of the first doses of vaccines available are used to vaccinate priority groups in developing countries.” UNIFEED