Epidemics

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

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday ruled out a Christmas lockdown, saying hospitals were coping well with...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland will restrict restaurants' opening hours to curb rising COVID-19 infections and the spread of the new...

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

BEIJING (Reuters) -One local COVID-19 case has forced a Chinese border city next to Vietnam to ordered its residents to...

(Reuters) - British Columbia will shut gyms, bars and nightclubs while allowing fewer people at tables in restaurants and cafes...

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

By William Maclean and Steve Holland LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Countries across Europe considered new curbs on movement on Tuesday while...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden will urge all employees to work from home if possible and impose tighter rules for social...

By Francesco Guarascio (Reuters) - Brussels is pushing to lift an "inefficient" travel ban on southern African states over the...

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian protesters tried to force their way into parliament on Tuesday, blocking traffic and vandalising some cars...

(Reuters) - Thailand will reinstate its mandatory COVID-19 quarantine for foreign visitors and scrap a quarantine waiver from Tuesday due...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia must move past "the heavy hand of government" and authorities must stop shutting down people's lives...

By Miranda Murray BERLIN (Reuters) -German leaders are considering tougher contact restrictions and an accelerated booster campaign among other measures...

By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) - Some Thais who had scrambled to book private hospital appointments to receive the Moderna...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A cluster of coronavirus infections linked to a U.S. military base in Japan has grown to at...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Food and Drug Administration said on Monday it has approved the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand is considering reinstating mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors due to concerns over the spread of Omicron,...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai woman has tested positive to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in the Southeast Asian...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities urged a "move away from fear" of the coronavirus on Monday, resisting calls to make...