Infectious Diseases

By Farah Master and Twinnie Siu HONG KONG (Reuters) -The latest wave of COVID-19 infections has "overwhelmed" Hong Kong, the...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will invoke the little-used Emergencies Act to give his government extra powers...

LONDON (Reuters) -Camilla, the wife of British heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles, has tested positive for coronavirus. "Her Royal Highness The Duchess...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she felt demonstrations against a COVID-19...

By Samuel McKeith (Reuters) - Australian police have given thousands of protesters until the end of Sunday to leave occupied...

By Antony Paone and Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) - A convoy protesting COVID-19 restrictions breached police defences and drove into...

By Twinnie Siu and Marius Zaharia HONG KONG (Reuters) -China will help Hong Kong to cope with an expanding COVID-19...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway will scrap nearly all its remaining COVID-19 lockdown measures as high levels of coronavirus infections are...

By Lidia Kelly (Reuters) -Days-long rallies against COVID-19 vaccination mandates picked up in numbers in New Zealand and Australia on...

(Reuters) - Canada's Ontario province declared a state of emergency on Friday, amid the ongoing trucker protests against COVID mandates,...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia will urge the Group of 20 leading economies to establish a global body that can dispense...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is approaching the peak of the coronavirus pandemic and will next week start easing some restrictions...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - More people arrived outside New Zealand's parliament on Friday, as protesters calling for an end to a...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian residents will need to receive booster shots to be considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19, although authorities...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Thursday urged Canada to use federal powers to ease the disruption at the U.S.-Canada...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned Russia of "serious" economic and political consequences should it ramp up military aggression toward...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea said on Thursday patients with mild coronavirus symptoms will have to treat themselves,...

(Reuters) - The mayor of Canada's Windsor said on Thursday the authorities were prepared to physically remove protesting truckers if...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who has been isolating since Saturday after contracting the coronavirus, tested negative for...

SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said on Thursday. "He...