Communicable Diseases

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia reported its biggest one-day rise in coronavirus infections on Thursday, as authorities began doling...

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Australian actor Nicole Kidman was exempted from quarantine in Hong Kong last week, the government appeared to...

By Daniel Leussink, Leika Kihara and Sakura Murakami TOKYO/FUKUOKA, Japan (Reuters) - Japan on Tuesday extended its state of emergency...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) -Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand on Monday implored Taliban leaders to uphold human...

By Colin Packham and Renju Jose CANBERRA/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's biggest city of Sydney recorded its deadliest day of the COVID-19...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Monday in his annual state of the nation speech that there...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities reinstated a night curfew and extended COVID-19 lockdown measures in Melbourne for another two weeks...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean police mobilised hundreds of buses and set up dozens of checkpoints on Sunday...

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Friday it was setting up a new group...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea on Friday signed a deal to buy 30 million doses of Pfizer's COVID-19...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Ningbo airport has suspended inbound and outbound flights to the capital Beijing from August 11 due...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities on Wednesday extended a lockdown in Melbourne for another seven days until Aug. 19 as...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand on Wednesday designated Indonesia and Fiji as very high-risk countries due to...

By Kate Lamb (Reuters) - East Timor has recorded its first case of community transmission of the highly contagious Delta...

By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia extended its COVID-19 curbs on populous Java and Bali islands until Aug. 16, but...

By Renju Jose and Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's public approval rating hit its lowest level...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China reported on Monday more COVID-19 infections in its latest outbreak of the disease, while some cities...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will extend its social distancing curbs by two weeks as the government...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea plans to invest 2.2 trillion won ($1.9 billion) to become one of the...

By Byron Kaye and Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's New South Wales reported one of the country's youngest deaths from...