The Biden administration put pressure on Facebook to take down memes about COVID-19 and began investigations into the company because it refused, Mark Zuckerberg has claimed.

The World Health Organization has urged China to share data on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, five years on from its start in the city of Wuhan.

Members of Donald Trump's presidential transition team are laying the groundwork for the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization on the first day of his second term, according to a health law expert familiar with the discussions.

US lawmakers have concluded a two-year investigation into the COVID-19 outbreak that killed 1.1 million Americans, backing the theory that the virus likely leaked from a Chinese laboratory.

Shares in big vaccine producers, including Pfizer and Moderna, tumbled soon after Donald Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated in an interview that he believes entire departments of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are unnecessary and should be dissolved.

The European Commission unlawfully concealed details of its Covid-19 vaccine procurement contracts, the EU’s general court has ruled.

The World Health Organization’s member states have agreed to extend negotiations on a pandemic treaty for up to a year. The decision to continue the negotiations was made at the World Health Assembly meeting on 1 June. However, an agreement was reached on a package of amendments to the International Health Regulations.