Epidemics

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Malawi has declared a polio outbreak after a case was detected in a young child in the...

By Joyce Zhou and Twinnie Siu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Friday that it...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong health authorities are expected to confirm at least 3,600 new COVID-19 cases on Friday,...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel on Thursday dropped a "Green Pass" policy requiring proof of vaccination, recovery from COVID-19 or a...

(Adds government statement on food supply) By Donny Kwok and Twinnie Siu HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's President Xi Jinping...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's daily count of new coronavirus cases topped 90,000 for the first time,...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese industrial hub Suzhou on Wednesday reported new COVID-19 cases for a second day, and authorities...

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's tourism ministry on Tuesday proposed a full reopening of the country to foreign visitors and a...

By Twinnie Siu and Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday ruled out a...

(Reuters) - A new wave of infections from the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is moving towards the east of...

By Farah Master and Twinnie Siu HONG KONG (Reuters) -The latest wave of COVID-19 infections has "overwhelmed" Hong Kong, the...

By Yesim Dikmen ISTANBUL (Reuters) - When Muzaffer Kayasan first caught COVID-19, he thought he was destined to die since...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will invoke the little-used Emergencies Act to give his government extra powers...

HANOI(Reuters) - Vietnam will remove its COVID-19 restrictions on international passenger flights with all markets starting Feb. 15, with no...

By Samuel McKeith (Reuters) - Australian police have given thousands of protesters until the end of Sunday to leave occupied...

By Twinnie Siu and Marius Zaharia HONG KONG (Reuters) -China will help Hong Kong to cope with an expanding COVID-19...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway will scrap nearly all its remaining COVID-19 lockdown measures as high levels of coronavirus infections are...

By Lidia Kelly (Reuters) -Days-long rallies against COVID-19 vaccination mandates picked up in numbers in New Zealand and Australia on...

By Brendan O'Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) -A variety of U.S.-based groups are organizing convoys of trucks and other vehicles for this...

(Reuters) -Canada is reviewing its pandemic-related border restrictions and will likely announce changes next week, as the worst of a...