Epidemics

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea on Friday signed a deal to buy 30 million doses of Pfizer's COVID-19...

(Reuters) - The World Health Organization has called for all governments to cooperate to accelerate studies into the origins of...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Ningbo airport has suspended inbound and outbound flights to the capital Beijing from August 11 due...

HANOI (Reuters) - Police in northern Vietnam have arrested a businessman for making and selling hundreds of fake negative COVID-19...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is working to create a digital vaccine passport that would allow citizens to travel abroad and...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile on Wednesday began administering booster shots to those already inoculated with Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine in a...

By Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba is bringing back hundreds of doctors working abroad and converting hotels into isolation...

By Prasto Wardoyo TEMBOK GEDE, Indonesia (Reuters) - A homemade robot designed by Indonesian villagers and scientists for fun has...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader said on Wednesday the COVID-19 pandemic was the country's "number-one problem" and must urgently...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police clashed with protesters for a second successive day on Wednesday, after hundreds sought to rally...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand on Wednesday designated Indonesia and Fiji as very high-risk countries due to...

LONDON (Reuters) - Booster shots for COVID-19 vaccines are not currently needed and the doses should be given to other...

By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladesh began vaccinating thousands of Rohingya Muslims on Tuesday in the world’s largest refugee settlement...

(Reuters) - Myanmar's army carried out at least 252 attacks and threats against health workers since a Feb. 1 coup,...

By Kate Lamb (Reuters) - East Timor has recorded its first case of community transmission of the highly contagious Delta...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany wants to end free coronavirus tests in October, the RND group of newspapers reported on Monday,...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will relax some travel restrictions to help delegates attend the U.N. climate conference in Scotland later...

By Mehmet Emin Caliskan ICMELER, Turkey (Reuters) - Until devastated by wildfires, hills near the Turkish sea resort of Marmaris...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China reported on Monday more COVID-19 infections in its latest outbreak of the disease, while some cities...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's three most populous states of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland reported a total of 282...