Healthcare Policy

By Promit Mukherjee and Trevor Hunnicutt JOHANNESBURG/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Heavily mutated Omicron is rapidly becoming the dominant variant of the...

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - New infections and deaths from HIV/AIDS may increase as the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted...

By Alistair Smout, Francesco Guarascio and Chen Lin LONDON/BRUSSELS/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Governments around the world are urgently scouring databases for recent...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The COVID-19 Omicron variant was detected in the Netherlands before two flights arrived from South Africa last...

PARIS (Reuters) -France's Health Ministry said on Sunday it had detected eight possible cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant across...

By Sabine Siebold RIGA (Reuters) -The European Union needs to buy time to assess fully the implications of the new...

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel on Saturday said it would ban the entry of all foreigners into the country,...

By Toby Sterling and Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch health authorities said on Saturday they had detected 61...

By Ludwig Burger and Joseph Nasr FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - For once, proverbially efficient Germany has dropped the ball. Seemingly endless...

By Jan Lopatka and Jason Hovet PRAGUE (Reuters) -The Czech government on Thursday ordered bars and clubs to close at...

LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal, one of the world's most vaccinated nations, will give COVID-19 booster shots to a quarter of...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he had participated in trials of a nasal form of...

By Promit Mukherjee JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa has asked Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer to delay delivery of COVID-19 vaccines...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico will analyze administering booster vaccine doses against COVID-19, especially for older people, President Andres Manuel...

PARIS (Reuters) - Protesters fired gunshots on police forces and firemen on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, reported Agence...

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada is ending its pandemic-era policy of turning back asylum-seekers trying to cross...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has been revaccinated against COVID-19, Russian news agencies quoted him as saying on...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday reported 1,254 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, a record daily high that...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will lift its COVID-19 ban on flights to countries including Bangladesh, Brazil, Mongolia, Costa Rica and...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that the world needs to be better prepared to probe...