Healthcare

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela has received its first batch of coronavirus vaccines through the COVAX mechanism intended for poor countries,...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden will push ahead with easing COVID-19 restrictions at the end of this month, removing most curbs...

By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) - As COVID-19 cases and deaths exploded in India in April and May,...

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Hundreds of medical facilities in Afghanistan are at risk of imminent closure because the...

By Lisa Baertlein (Reuters) - Nurse Chris Prott's knees jump, his heart races, his mouth goes dry and his mind...

By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - British vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi on Sunday said a decision had not yet been...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will donate 400,000 doses of the AstraZeneca Plc COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan, the foreign ministry in...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahraini authorities have authorised the use of a booster dose of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, the...

By Arshad Mohammed, Patricia Zengerle and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress is likely to finance U.N. and...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei announced new national transport curbs and social restrictions on Thursday in an...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will get 4 million doses of the Pfizer Inc coronavirus vaccine in a swap deal with...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged efforts to prevent natural disasters or coronavirus outbreaks from damaging...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday denied allegations that medical supplies like personal protective equipment and face...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 55 million people worldwide are living with dementia, a neurological disorder that...

By Sisipho Skweyiya JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - At Springs train station in South Africa's biggest city Johannesburg, Simphiwe Dyantyi and her...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's health ministry said on Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine regimen of China's Sinovac followed by British-developed...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian doctors on Thursday warned the country's hospitals are not ready to cope with the...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean frontline health workers on Thursday dropped plans to strike after they reached...

By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) -Three-quarters of the people in Latin America and the Caribbean have not been fully immunized...

(Reuters) -North Korea has rejected roughly three million COVID-19 vaccine doses of China's Sinovac Biotech, saying they should be sent...