Epidemics

By Soo-hyang Choi and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's admission that it is battling an "explosive" COVID-19 outbreak...

By Hyonhee Shin and Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea's coronavirus outbreak threatens to deepen its already dire food situation...

By Brenda Goh and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Beijing denied it was heading for lockdown as panic buying gripped...

By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) - For the last 65 days Laura Hudson has been on a mission to leave...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry called on World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to avoid making "irresponsible"...

By Brenda Goh and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Shanghai officials said on Wednesday half the city had achieved...

By Nikolaj Skydsgaard and Jennifer Rigby COPENHAGEN/LONDON (Reuters) - For many people worldwide, having cotton swabs thrust up their nose...

By David Stanway and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Tesla operated its Shanghai plant well below capacity on Tuesday, showing...

(Corrects to show Beijing reported 39, not 38, local COVID infections during the past 24 hours in headline and paragraph...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Quanta Shanghai Manufacturing City would seem like an ideal site to implement China's "closed-loop" management system to...

By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's capital Beijing kicked off a fresh round of mass testing for COVID-19 on Saturday...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Shanghai said on Friday it has brought China's worst outbreak of COVID-19 under effective control following a month-long...

By Brad Brooks CONVERSE, Texas (Reuters) - Aidan Garza often talks about his dad in the present tense, as if...

By Eduardo Baptista and David Stanway BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Beijing residents fretted on Friday over tightening COVID curbs in its biggest...

By Jennifer Rigby (Reuters) - Almost three times as many people have died as a result of COVID-19 as official...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's eastern financial hub of Shanghai reported 13 new COVID-19 deaths for May 4, down from 16...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Beijing will cut the time that people have to stay in quarantine facilities when they arrive in...

By Brenda Goh and Hallie Gu SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Some of Shanghai's 25 million people managed to get out on Tuesday...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The central Chinese city of Zhengzhou announced on Tuesday it would impose new COVID-related movement curbs for...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing will postpone school reopening for at least one week after the labour day holiday, an official...