Diseases

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Wednesday the government will introduce a series of new...

PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he wanted to "piss off" the non-vaccinated, in a slangy, cutting...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the government will expand a "vaccine bubble" from...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China ended its final week of 2021 with its biggest tally of local coronavirus cases for any...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is on high alert against COVID-19 as the New Year holiday looms, with the city of...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland became the latest country to smash its previous record number of daily COVID-19 cases on Wednesday,...

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece is introducing new restrictions on the hospitality sector from Thursday, bringing forward measures planned for early January...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand said on Wednesday that a person who tested positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has lifted a travel ban on eight southern African countries that had been among the...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian health authorities were conducting contact tracing on Tuesday after detecting the Southeast Asian country's first case...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland on Friday reported its highest number of daily COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began but those...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Officials in the northwestern Chinese city of Xian are facing punishment after a COVID-19 outbreak led to...

PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Friday that negative COVID tests will be required to travel to its overseas territories,...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A fire in the intensive care unit of a COVID-19 hospital killed two people on Friday in...

By Neha Arora NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to hold discussions with state chiefs...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's coronavirus death toll passed the 600,000 mark on Thursday, Reuters calculations based on official data showed,...

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) -Organisers of the Beijing Winter Olympics said on Thursday they expect a "certain number"...

LONDON (Reuters) - The British government said that from Wednesday it was reducing the COVID-19 self-isolation period to seven days...

By Yeni Seo and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - Some 300 South Korean small business owners protested in Seoul on...

By Ju-min Park and Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan reported on Wednesday its first instance of community spread infection...