Healthcare

By Alistair Smout and Nikolaj Skydsgaard (Reuters) - A surge in coronavirus cases caused by the Omicron variant may have...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it had postponed the second reading in parliament of a draft law that...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - COVID-19 hospitalisation rates in Australia's most populous state of New South Wales could plateau next week, a...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Coronavirus restrictions in the Netherlands will be eased from Saturday despite a wave of new infections due...

By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has eased its COVID-19 rules on testing, quarantine and hospital admissions...

LONDON (Reuters) - England's deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam, whose use of colourful metaphors and similes became a hallmark...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, 96, has been discharged from hospital following a successful medical...

By Anna Mehler Paperny and David Ljunggren TORONTO (Reuters) - A proposal by Quebec to tax unvaccinated people may be...

By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -The British government acted unlawfully by setting up a fast-track "VIP lane" to allow ministers...

By Antony Paone PARIS (Reuters) - Emergency ward doctor Abigael Debit is increasingly spending her time finding beds for COVID-19...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia kicked off its COVID-19 booster programme for the general public on Wednesday, as the world's fourth-most-populous...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand is planning to collect a 300 baht ($9) fee from foreign tourist from April to develop...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany reported 80,430 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, the highest recorded in a single day since the...

By Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) - On the afternoon of Dec. 30, security forces banged on the windows of Khartoum...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Porfirije, the 46th Patriarch of the influential Serbian Orthodox Church, the country's largest Christian denomination, tested positive...

By Subrata Nagchoudhury KOLKATA (Reuters) - Nearly one million Hindu worshippers are expected to gather on the banks of the...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's COVID-19 infections hovered near record levels on Tuesday as a surge of infections caused by the...

By Clara-Laeila Laudette and Elias Biryabarema MADRID/KAYUNGA, Uganda (Reuters) - European governments are relaxing COVID-19 rules to keep hospitals, schools...

By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile, one of the world's fastest movers on COVID-19 vaccines, started its...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Omicron variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus has become the dominant strain in the Czech Republic, the...