Epidemics

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya will offer COVID-19 booster shots to individuals six months after their initial shots, the health ministry...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans without symptoms of COVID-19 will no longer need to isolate or test if they have...

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

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Bhutan has started giving COVID-19 booster shots to senior citizens and priority groups as...

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...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia on Friday narrowed the wait time for people to receive COVID-19 booster shots as another record jump...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic will require all foreigners visiting the country to have a negative PCR coronavirus test...

By James Macharia Chege and Josephine Mason JOHANNESBURG/LONDON (Reuters) -Omicron advanced across the world on Thursday, with health experts warning...

MILAN (Reuters) - The highly contagious Omicron coronavirus variant is spreading rapidly in Italy, the National Health Institute (ISS) said...

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"...

GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African data offered a glimmer of hope on Wednesday about the severity of the Omicron coronavirus variant,...

LONDON (Reuters) - The risk of needing to stay in hospital for patients with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is...

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that...

By Catarina Demony and Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's health minister on Wednesday predicted the Omicron variant would trigger...

(Reuters) - Merck & Co Inc has signed deals to sell about 9 million courses of its experimental COVID-19 pill...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's strict COVID-19 policy is weighing on consumption and rattling foreign firms, but its effectiveness and the...

By Neha Arora and Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's capital New Delhi on Wednesday banned Christmas and other...