Epidemics

By Anna Mehler Paperny and Steve Scherer TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's government implored residents on Wednesday not to leave the...

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - As the COVID-19 pandemic raged, Canadian government inspectors frequently deemed the employers of...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa reported a record number of new daily COVID-19 infections on Wednesday in a fourth wave believed...

By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom recorded its most daily coronavirus cases since the start of the...

By Humeyra Pamuk KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday cut short a brief trip...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will advise citizens on Wednesday to avoid non-essential international travel to help reduce the threat from...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has cut short his trip to Southeast Asia due to...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Preliminary evidence indicates that COVID-19 vaccines may be less effective against infection and transmission linked to the...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia on Wednesday reopened borders to vaccinated skilled migrants and foreign students after a nearly...

By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Pfizer and BioNtech are set to displace AstraZeneca as the main suppliers of COVID-19...

MANILA (Reuters) - An incoming typhoon has forced the Philippines to delay COVID-19 vaccinations of millions of people living in...

By Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Netherlands will extend COVID-19 restrictions through the Christmas holidays, including the early closure...

By Michael Erman and Deena Beasley NEW YORK (Reuters) -Pfizer Inc on Tuesday said its antiviral COVID-19 pill showed near...

LONDON (Reuters) -The British government will remove all 11 countries from its COVID-19 travel red list from Wednesday because there...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Africa is experiencing its fastest surge in COVID-19 cases this year, with the number up 83% in...

By Heru Asprihanto JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia started vaccinating elementary school children aged 6-11 against COVID-19 on Tuesday, becoming one...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore is considering requiring its residents to get a booster shot to qualify as fully vaccinated against...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Major Chinese manufacturing province Zhejiang is fighting its first COVID-19 cluster this year, with tens of thousands...

(Fixes typo in para 2) BEIJING (Reuters) - Health authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have detected one...

By Ismail Shakil (Reuters) - COVID-19 cases in Canada may rapidly rise in the coming days due to community spread...