Communicable Diseases

BEIJING (Reuters) -Mainland China has logged its highest number of daily new local symptomatic COVID-19 infections in about two years,...

BEIJING (Reuters) -The Chinese port city of Qingdao reported 88 new coronavirus cases for March 5, all of them of...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea said on Thursday patients with mild coronavirus symptoms will have to treat themselves,...

By Roshan Abraham and Kavya B (Reuters) - Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 400 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia will tighten social restrictions in Jakarta and Bali, as well as in two other cities on...

(Corrects name of ministry in second paragraph) BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of passenger trips during China's Lunar New Year...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's holiday island of Bali will start welcoming back travellers from all countries from later this week,...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Secretary for Home Affairs resigned on Monday weeks after attending the birthday party of...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's capital Beijing ramped up efforts to curb COVID-19 infections, ordering checks among cold-chain firms and urging...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines opened a zoo on Wednesday as a makeshift vaccination centre in the hope its elephants...

By Clara-Laeila Laudette and Alistair Smout MADRID/LONDON (Reuters) - Using the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 to gauge...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China reported the lowest daily count of local confirmed COVID-19 infections in two weeks on Wednesday after...

BEIJING (Reuters) -The Chinese city of Tianjin reported fewer COVID-19 cases on Tuesday after measures such as conducting mass testing...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's capital Delhi and financial hub Mumbai have reported a big fall in COVID-19 infections in...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Several Chinese cities went on high COVID-19 alert as the Lunar New Year holiday travel season started on...

By Piroschka van de Wouw AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters packed Amsterdam's streets on Sunday in opposition to the...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing will require travellers to get a COVID-19 test within 72 hours of arrival in the Chinese...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese capital Beijing on Saturday reported its first locally transmitted infection of the highly transmissible Omicron...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported 1,054 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the highest daily increase in three months, as the...

By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong is following mainland China's zero-tolerance approach to control COVID-19, rankling many...