Diseases

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police used water cannon and tear gas to disperse protesters near the office of Prime Minister...

HANOI (Reuters) - Thousands of jobless workers in Vietnam's biggest city are trying to flee to their hometowns, many on...

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

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 Heru Asprihanto JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's capital reopened its retail malls this week to an exclusive crowd - shoppers...

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 Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) -Under pressure from businesses and public sectors facing a worker shortage that policymakers fear will...

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

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo said in a video released Saturday that COVID-19 infections have started to surge...

(Reuters) - St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said on Friday he was recovering a day after...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police have charged a DJ with violating the country's controversial pornography law after the 28-year-old staged...

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

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has administered COVID-19 vaccines to 38.9 million people, about 27% of its population, health minister Mikhail Murashko...

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

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Unvaccinated Hong Kong government employees, as well as education and health workers will soon have to...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador has detected its first case of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus,...