Healthcare

By Stephanie Nebehay and Ludwig Burger GENEVA (Reuters) - The Omicron coronavirus variant, reported in more than 60 countries, poses...

By Edward McAllister DAKAR (Reuters) - At least 200,000 COVID-19 vaccines have expired in Senegal without being used in the...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India reported its lowest tally of active COVID-19 cases in 18 months on Monday, but a...

By Emilio Parodi, Nikolaj Skydsgaard and Bart H. Meijer MILAN/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - As Europe starts vaccinating younger children, countries are...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -More than a dozen Chinese-listed companies said they had suspended production in coronavirus-hit parts of China's eastern Zhejiang...

WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris congratulated Xiomara Castro on her historic victory as Honduras’ first female...

KYIV (Reuters) - The World Bank has approved an additional $150 million loan to help Ukraine speed up vaccinations against...

By Maggie Fick NAIROBI (Reuters) - Now that rich nations are sharing more COVID-19 shots with Africa, health officials across...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland may have to impose another limited lockdown to break the momentum of rising coronavirus cases that...

TEGUGICALPA (Reuters) - Incoming Honduran President Xiomara Castro received a potential boost on Thursday when an opposition party offered to...

By Christian Kraemer and Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) -The coronavirus pandemic is the first big challenge for Germany's new government...

By Stephanie Nebehay and Josephine Mason GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization warned wealthy countries on Thursday against hoarding COVID-19...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's supreme court has overturned the conviction of a Geneva doctor who helped a healthy 86-year-old woman...

LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie have announced the birth of a healthy baby girl...

By Alistair Smout and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Thursday implored people to obey tougher restrictions to slow the...

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved a Republican measure that would overturn President Joe...

By Ludwig Burger and Michael Erman (Reuters) -BioNTech and Pfizer said on Wednesday a three-shot course of their COVID-19 vaccine...

By Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) - Arrival of the highly-mutated Omicron variant is a wake-up call to develop vaccines less susceptible...

By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) - A Harvard-educated epidemiologist with a penchant for red bow ties, Karl Lauterbach became a...

By Reuters Staff (Reuters) - Many countries are rolling out COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, but there is no consensus among...