Epidemics

By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Australia's east coast states of New South Wales and Queensland faced an escalating battle against...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia will begin offering a booster shot against Covid-19, switching between the AstraZeneca and Chinese COVID-19...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador has detected its first case of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus,...

HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam will from Monday extend strict curbs on movement in its business hub Ho Chi Minh City and...

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy reported 16 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday, down from 18 the day before, the health ministry said,...

By Juarawee Kittisilpa BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai hospital morgue overwhelmed by COVID-19 deaths has begun storing bodies in refrigerated...

(Reuters) -The Olympics host city Tokyo, as well as Thailand and Malaysia, announced record COVID-19 infections on Saturday, mostly driven...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's special parliamentary sitting will be cut short after the detection of COVID-19 infections in the...

By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Sydney's coronavirus cases continued to surge on Saturday as police cordoned off the city's central...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Newly reported COVID-19 cases in Tokyo surged to a record high of 4,058 on Saturday, the metropolitan...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia extended a state of emergency in the eastern state of Sarawak until February 2022 to...

By Stephanie Nebehay and Michael Shields GENEVA (Reuters) - The world is at risk of losing hard-won gains in fighting...

By Stephen Farrell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli President Isaac Herzog received a third shot of coronavirus vaccine on Friday, kicking...

By Alessandra Prentice DAKAR (Reuters) - Idrissa Lo rushed back to Senegal from the United States when family members started...

By Colin Packham and Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's military will help enforce a lockdown in Sydney after the city...

By Juarawee Kittisilpa and Artorn Pookasook BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai volunteers on Wednesday turned a cargo warehouse at Bangkok's Don...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway postponed for a second time on Wednesday a planned final step in the reopening of its...

By Renju Jose and Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's biggest city, Sydney, extended a lockdown by four weeks on Wednesday...

By Hyonhee Shin and Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea on Wednesday reported 1,896 new COVID-19 cases for Tuesday, its...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Kuwait on Tuesday said only citizens who have been vaccinated for the coronavirus will be allowed to...