Healthcare

By Benoit Nyemba KINSHASA (Reuters) - At the St Joseph COVID Treatment Centre in Kinshasa, patients lie in ramshackle rooms breathing...

RAMAT GAN, Israel (Reuters) -An Israeli hospital administered fourth COVID-19 vaccine doses to a test group of health workers on...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will not vaccinate his 11-year-old daughter against COVID-19, he said on Monday, maintaining...

ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian president's top media aide Garba Shehu said on Saturday that he has tested positive for...

By Neha Arora NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India will start administering COVID-19 booster shots as a precautionary measure to healthcare and...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya will offer COVID-19 booster shots to individuals six months after their initial shots, the health ministry...

(In paragraph 6, fixes typo to say "than," not "that) By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis, leading the...

By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The Biden administration will lift travel restrictions on eight southern African countries imposed last month over...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans without symptoms of COVID-19 will no longer need to isolate or test if they have...

By Neha Arora and Shilpa Jamkhandikar NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indians are crowding markets and taking packed flights to holiday destinations...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland on Friday reported its highest number of daily COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began but those...

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Bhutan has started giving COVID-19 booster shots to senior citizens and priority groups as...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Officials in the northwestern Chinese city of Xian are facing punishment after a COVID-19 outbreak led to...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Austria should offer some healthcare staff and other key workers a fourth COVID-19 jab, the National Vaccination...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa will start offering booster shots of Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine from Friday, the...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia on Friday narrowed the wait time for people to receive COVID-19 booster shots as another record jump...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic will require all foreigners visiting the country to have a negative PCR coronavirus test...

By James Macharia Chege and Josephine Mason JOHANNESBURG/LONDON (Reuters) -Omicron advanced across the world on Thursday, with health experts warning...

By Renju Jose and Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia reintroduced COVID-19 curbs such as mandated mask wearing indoors, capacity limits...

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada will temporarily expand support programs to help people and businesses hit by the Omicron...