General Healthcare

By Kate Chappell KINGSTON (Reuters) - Jamaica will prohibit residents from leaving their homes for seven days spread over three...

LONDON (Reuters) - The estimated range for England's COVID-19 reproduction "R" number rose to 0.9 to 1.2, according to official...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern extended New Zealand's strict nationwide coronavirus lockdown on Friday, saying the full extent...

By Renju Jose and Colin Packham SYDNEY/CANBERRA (Reuters) -Two million residents of Sydney will be under nightly curfew from next...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will begin requiring negative COVID-19 test results and proofs of vaccination for some sectors, including from...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia reported its biggest one-day rise in coronavirus infections on Thursday, as authorities began doling...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) -Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put New Zealand under strict lockdown on Tuesday after the country's...

By Emma Farge and Emma Thomasson GENEVA (Reuters) -The chief of field operations of the U.N. children's agency expressed cautious...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a nationwide lockdown on Tuesday after a new case of...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Monday in his annual state of the nation speech that there...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities reinstated a night curfew and extended COVID-19 lockdown measures in Melbourne for another two weeks...

By Julie Gordon and Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada on Friday said it will soon require all federal public servants...

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

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities on Wednesday extended a lockdown in Melbourne for another seven days until Aug. 19 as...

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

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga apologised on Friday for accidentally skipping parts of a speech in Hiroshima to...

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

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea plans to invest 2.2 trillion won ($1.9 billion) to become one of the...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Some members of a government expert panel warned that a recent surge in COVID-19 cases was severe...

By Akiko Okamoto, Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - The head of the Japan Medical Association called on...