Epidemics

By Anna Mehler Paperny and Allison Lampert TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's ban on travelers from southern African countries and its...

By Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) - Arrival of the highly-mutated Omicron variant is a wake-up call to develop vaccines less susceptible...

By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) - A Harvard-educated epidemiologist with a penchant for red bow ties, Karl Lauterbach became a...

By Reuters Staff (Reuters) - Many countries are rolling out COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, but there is no consensus among...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has so far been detected in the Americas in Argentina, Brazil,...

By Sara Rossi MILAN (Reuters) - Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth" kicked off La Scala's opera season before hundreds of spectators on...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has reported its fourth case of the Omicron coronavirus variant, TV Asahi said on Wednesday. The...

BERN (Reuters) - More than 11,000 candles - one for each Swiss victim of the coronavirus pandemic - lit up...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany recorded the highest number of deaths from COVID-19 since February on Wednesday as it battles to...

PARIS (Reuters) - Authorities on the Caribbean island of Martinique ordered a new curfew on Tuesday, citing the worsening of...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil will require that unvaccinated travelers entering the country go on a five-day quarantine followed by a COVID-19...

By Lea Guedj VITRY-SUR-SEINE, France (Reuters) - French archivist Adele Bellot went on Tuesday to get a booster shot against...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland will deploy up to 2,500 military personnel to help regional authorities cope with the coronavirus pandemic,...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Mandatory vaccinations against the coronavirus are an "absolute last resort", the World Health Organization's top Europe official said...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Healthcare disruptions linked to the coronavirus pandemic helped malaria kill 69,000 more people in 2020 than the...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's health minister said on Monday there is now community transmission of the Omicron variant of the...

(Reuters) - Future pandemics could be more lethal than COVID-19 so the lessons learned from the outbreak must not be...

(Reuters) - European Union health ministers will discuss the coronavirus pandemic and the spread of the Omicron variant on Tuesday,...

By Josh Smith and Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea imposed stricter measures on Monday to contain growing coronavirus...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Monday reported its first confirmed cases of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Russian...