Epidemics

HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam's coronavirus epicentre Ho Chi Minh City, which has kept residents confined at home under lockdown, is considering...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore will hold off on further steps to reopen the country while it monitors an increase in...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A leak online of the president's COVID-19 vaccine certificate has heightened concern in Indonesia about information security,...

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - When Yoshihide Suga took over as Japan's prime minister last year, hopes were high...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Friday extended social distancing curbs for several weeks to rein in...

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam could be facing a lengthy battle against the coronavirus and cannot rely on lockdown and quarantine...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's health ministry said on Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine regimen of China's Sinovac followed by British-developed...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian doctors on Thursday warned the country's hospitals are not ready to cope with the...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean frontline health workers on Thursday dropped plans to strike after they reached...

By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba will begin vaccinating adolescents against COVID-19 this week and younger children from mid-September...

ROME (Reuters) -Italy broadened usage of Green Pass health documents on Wednesday, making them obligatory for anyone travelling on high-speed...

(Reuters) -North Korea has rejected roughly three million COVID-19 vaccine doses of China's Sinovac Biotech, saying they should be sent...

LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal said on Wednesday it would allow entry for tourists from Brazil, nearly 18 months after it...

ZURICH (Reuters) -Switzerland will not tighten curbs on public life for now despite rising coronavirus cases, the government said on...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand allowed shopping malls in the capital Bangkok to reopen on Wednesday and restaurants to operate at...

By Matthew Tostevin and Stanley Widianto BANGKOK/JAKARTA (Reuters) - As Indonesia and Thailand start to ease COVID-19 curbs after seeing...

By Adrian Portugal MANILA (Reuters) - Scores of healthcare workers protested in the Philippine capital on Wednesday to demand an...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean government officials were in last-ditch efforts on Wednesday to stave off a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department has raised its travel advisory alert for Canada to a "level  3 – reconsider travel" status...

By Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African scientists have detected a new coronavirus variant with multiple mutations but are...