Epidemics

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil had 43,033 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's second most populous state Victoria reported 11 new locally acquired coronavirus cases on Sunday, as the...

CAIRO (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia will gradually begin receiving Umrah pilgrimage requests from abroad for vaccinated pilgrims starting Aug. 9 after...

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy reported 22 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday, compared with 24 the day before, while the daily tally...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo said in a video released Saturday that COVID-19 infections have started to surge...

By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Australia saw a record daily number of new coronavirus cases this year on Saturday, with...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson does not need to self isolate even though a member of his...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's Victoria reported 29 new locally acquired coronavirus cases on Saturday, the highest daily jump this year,...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will next week review the list of states from which non-essential travel is allowed...

By Ngouda Dione and Cooper Inveen DAKAR (Reuters) - At Dalal Jamm hospital in Dakar, only the whooshing sound of...

By Mert Ozkan and Umit Bektas MILAS, Turkey (Reuters) - A forest fire was coming closer to a power station...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore will from next week lift some COVID-19 curbs and ease restrictions on entry for foreign workers,...

(Fixes typo in headline) STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -The spread of COVID-19 in Sweden has continued to accelerate with infection rates no...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian officials warned Sydney residents on Friday to brace for a surge in COVID-19...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police have charged a DJ with violating the country's controversial pornography law after the 28-year-old staged...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will extend its social distancing curbs by two weeks as the government...

By Gavin Jones and Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government ruled on Thursday that teachers must have proof...

By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Nations is concerned about situations where COVID-19 vaccines have gone unused,...

By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Senegal's Institut Pasteur of Dakar (IPD) has reached a deal with U.S. company MedInstill...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has administered COVID-19 vaccines to 38.9 million people, about 27% of its population, health minister Mikhail Murashko...