Healthcare

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has so far been detected in the Americas in Argentina, Brazil,...

By Anna-Catherine Brigada TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Xiomara Castro has made history as the first woman to be elected president of...

BERN (Reuters) - More than 11,000 candles - one for each Swiss victim of the coronavirus pandemic - lit up...

By Edward McAllister, Libby George and Stephanie Nebehay DAKAR (Reuters) - Up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to...

By Edward McAllister, Libby George and Stephanie Nebehay DAKAR (Reuters) -Up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil will require that unvaccinated travelers entering the country go on a five-day quarantine followed by a COVID-19...

By Ludwig Burger and Patricia Weiss FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The German state of Saxony, among the hardest hit by surging...

By Johan Ahlander and Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden will reintroduce a series of limited measures to curb rising...

By Lea Guedj VITRY-SUR-SEINE, France (Reuters) - French archivist Adele Bellot went on Tuesday to get a booster shot against...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland will deploy up to 2,500 military personnel to help regional authorities cope with the coronavirus pandemic,...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Mandatory vaccinations against the coronavirus are an "absolute last resort", the World Health Organization's top Europe official said...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will not require stricter domestic COVID restrictions in the run-up to Christmas because vaccines had put...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's health minister said on Monday there is now community transmission of the Omicron variant of the...

By Maggie Fick and Edward McAllister SEKENANI, Kenya (Reuters) - When a group arrived at the Sekenani health clinic in...

(Reuters) - Future pandemics could be more lethal than COVID-19 so the lessons learned from the outbreak must not be...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy tightened curbs on Monday on people still not vaccinated against COVID-19, limiting their access to an...

(Reuters) - European Union health ministers will discuss the coronavirus pandemic and the spread of the Omicron variant on Tuesday,...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Karl Lauterbach of Germany's Social Democrats will serve as health minister and current justice minister Christine Lambrecht...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa is preparing its hospitals for more admissions, as the Omicron coronavirus variant pushes the country into...

By Tommy Wilkes LONDON (Reuters) - Africa has little chance of overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic unless 70% of its population...