Epidemics

By Crispian Balmer and Alexandra Alper ROME/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global COVID-19 infections hit a record high over the past seven-day...

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

ROME (Reuters) - Italian restaurant and club owners are seeking urgent government support due to increased cancellations prompted by a...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has recalled rules that no longer required people without symptoms of COVID-19 to isolate or...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai health authorities warned on Wednesday that residents should brace themselves for a potential jump in coronavirus...

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

By Renju Jose and Sonali Paul SYDNEY/MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia will seek to make urgent changes to COVID-19 testing rules...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico on Tuesday allowed a cruise ship to dock and disembark tourists in spite of an...

By Gram Slattery and Augustin Geist RIO DE JANEIRO/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Throughout much of 2020 and early 2021, South...

(Reuters) - Quebec, the second most populous Canadian province, has "no choice" but to allow some essential workers to continue...

BERLIN (Reuters) -The German government will present draft legislation to protect people with disabilities and pre-existing conditions if over-stretched hospitals...

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...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia recorded another record surge in COVID-19 infections on Tuesday as an outbreak of the highly infectious Omicron...

By Benoit Nyemba KINSHASA (Reuters) - At the St Joseph COVID Treatment Centre in Kinshasa, patients lie in ramshackle rooms breathing...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Argentina almost doubled on Monday from Friday to 20,263 new infections, according...

By Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) -Faced with the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, France will further tighten COVID-19...

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia reported its first confirmed death from the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 on Monday...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A major Israeli hospital will begin administering a fourth COVID-19 vaccine shot to 150 staff on Monday in...

ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian president's top media aide Garba Shehu said on Saturday that he has tested positive for...