Healthcare

By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador will administer booster shots against COVID-19 to the general population starting January 2022,...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO), asked about the European Union's fresh recommendation for COVID-19 boosters for people...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's government on Wednesday proposed reintroducing mandatory face mask usage on public transport, in shops and in...

By Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities said on Wednesday they were scouring social networks and media websites to...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The SARS-CoV-2 virus will continue to spread intensely as societies return to the social mixing and mobility...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - A little known sect led by a pastor who pokes eyes to heal is...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - As children and adolescents are at lower risk of severe COVID-19 disease, countries should...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he had participated in trials of a nasal form of...

By Promit Mukherjee JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa has asked Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer to delay delivery of COVID-19 vaccines...

(Reuters) - Myanmar's military has arrested 18 medics for providing treatment to patients who were members of "terrorist organisations", a...

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel began rolling out Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccinations for 5- to 11-year-olds on Monday hoping to...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico will analyze administering booster vaccine doses against COVID-19, especially for older people, President Andres Manuel...

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday a further 700,000 people could die...

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain's Catalonia region plans to demand proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test for entry to...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany should impose further restrictions to try to stop a fourth wave of coronavirus infections, outgoing Health Minister...

ROME (Reuters) - An ethics committee in the central Italian region of Marche has given its green light for what...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Netherlands started transporting COVID-19 patients across the border to Germany on Tuesday to ease pressure on Dutch...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Trade ministers are holding a conference at the World Trade Organization in Geneva for the first time...

By Alexandros Avramidis MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (Reuters) - In the chapel of a monastery on Greece's Mount Athos, Father Makarios...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A global licence for serological technology that detects COVID-19 antibodies will be provided royalty-free to poor and...