Epidemics

BEIJING (Reuters) -The Chinese port city of Tianjin began a new round of testing of its 14 million residents on...

GABORONE (Reuters) -Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi has left isolation just over a week after testing positive for COVID-19 without symptoms,...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany reported 80,430 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, the highest recorded in a single day since the...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The ruling Social Democrats (SPD) expect a bill on making COVID-19 vaccination mandatory in Germany to be...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Some members of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's family and cabinet were isolating and taking...

By Kacper Pempel WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's death toll from coronavirus-related conditions surpassed 100,000 on Tuesday, as vaccine hesitancy and...

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will maintain its tight entry restrictions to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant...

(Reuters) - Hong Kong's international airport is set to ban transit by passengers from designated high-risk countries, Bloomberg News said...

PARIS (Reuters) - French schoolchildren will be allowed to do self-tests instead of a PCR test if one of their...

ROME (Reuters) - The small number of Italians who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19 are largely responsible for the...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Omicron variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus has become the dominant strain in the Czech Republic, the...

By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) -More than 1 million Indians received their third COVID-19 vaccine dose on Monday...

By Clara-Laeila Laudette and Alistair Smout MADRID/LONDON (Reuters) -Europe's healthcare systems are being strained once again by the rapid spread...

PARIS (Reuters) - French politician Stephane Claireaux, who is a member of President Emmanuel Macron's ruling La Republique En Marche...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's first legislature meeting of 2022 may have to be held online, its council president...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The northern Chinese city of Tianjin tightened exit controls and is requiring residents to obtain approval from...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The head of Brazil's health regulator Anvisa has asked the country's vaccine-skeptic President Jair Bolsonaro to retract...

By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing ahead with a vaccine mandate for international...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, recorded its highest number of daily COVID-19 deaths on Saturday as...

SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - People should stay away from the special vehicles used to ferry people to and from the...