Epidemics

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Tokyo hotel has apologised and removed signs saying "Japanese only" and "foreigners only" from elevators after...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa extended tight COVID-19 rules on Sunday for another 14 days, maintaining restrictions that include a ban...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia reported 25,033 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 5,410 in Moscow, taking the official national tally...

By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Several countries promised to help Tunisia fight the coronavirus on Friday as the north...

By Umar Farooq ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's top body overseeing the pandemic response recommended on Friday that anyone who did...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia recorded around 428,000 excess deaths from April 2020 to May this year during the coronavirus pandemic,...

By Martin Petty and Stanley Widianto (Reuters) -Having escaped the worst when the coronavirus pandemic erupted last year, Southeast Asia...

By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand announced tighter restrictions in the capital Bangkok and nine provinces...

By Renju Jose and Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities on Friday pleaded with Sydney's five million residents to...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines on Friday loosened coronavirus restrictions to allow children out of their homes so they can...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil registered the highest number of deaths and lowest number of births in the first six...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow's mayor said the COVID-19 situation was gradually stabilising after a surge in infections blamed on the...

(Reuters) -Forty prisoners have tested positive for COVID-19 in Myanmar's main jail housing some of the thousands of anti-coup protesters...

By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to reopen England's economy from coronavirus lockdown on...

By Kate Lamb and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - A morbid grid of graves widens as excavators dig deep, piling...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The European Union has proposed to Russia that they discuss the potential joint recognition of their COVID-19...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's health ministry said on Thursday it had proposed new travel curbs and tighter restrictions in high-risk...

By Margaryta Chornokondratenko and Sergiy Karazy KYIV/LVIV (Reuters) - Nabeel Kensara and Nasal Alzamzmi, a couple from Saudi Arabia, used...

By Thinh Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) - Thousands of students turned out for examinations in Vietnam's capital Hanoi on Wednesday, forging...

HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam will impose tight movement restrictions in its commercial hub Ho Chi Minh city from the end of...