Healthcare

By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss cantons of Geneva and Vaud have placed 2,000 people, most of...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea announced on Friday that people visiting restaurants and cinemas and other public...

By Katharine Houreld and Ayenat Mersie NAIROBI (Reuters) - South Africa is seeing an increase in COVID-19 reinfections due to...

By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch health authorities on Thursday said most of the 62 people who tested positive...

By Anuron Kumar Mitra and Chandini Monnappa BENGALURU (Reuters) - India reported its first two cases of the Omicron coronavirus...

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

By Promit Mukherjee and Estelle Shirbon JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The Omicron variant appears able to get around some immunity but vaccines...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that travel restrictions imposed over...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization expects to have more information on the transmissibility of the...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban health authorities said that researchers in the communist-run country are upgrading its homegrown COVID vaccines to...

By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - The new Omicron variant of the coronavirus is likely to soon spread to other...

(Reuters) - Air travellers to the United States will face tougher COVID-19 testing rules to try to slow the spread...

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

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union needs daily reviews of its travel restrictions and rapid deployment of vaccine booster doses...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday called for a renewed solidarity with those suffering from...

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

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain plans to allow people who have tested positive for HIV to join the armed forces if...

By Ludwig Burger and Emma Thomasson FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - The World Health Organization warned countries on Tuesday not to impose...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Countries should apply "an evidence-informed and risk-based approach" with any travel measures related to the Omicron variant...

By David Ljunggren and Kanishka Singh OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada, seeking to halt the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, will...