Infectious Diseases

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Forces in Japan (USFJ) on Thursday said they have introduced stricter measures to tackle an increase...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The northwestern Chinese city of Xian suspended all international passenger flights from Jan. 5 at its airport...

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria will require almost all travellers from the European Union to have a negative PCR coronavirus test...

By Antony Paone MEAUX, France (Reuters) - France has started giving the COVID-19 jab to children as young as 5,...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Central Chinese cities including Yuzhou and Zhengzhou imposed varying degrees of travel curbs after sporadic COVID-19 cases,...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities have cancelled an annual procession, which normally draws millions of Catholic devotees accompanying a black...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's daily COVID-19 cases hit a record high for a third day on Wednesday, further...

PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he wanted to "piss off" the non-vaccinated, in a slangy, cutting...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Health Ministry said on Tuesday that most participants in a public hearing on vaccinating children aged...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia have tested positive for COVID-19, the palace said in a...

By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Authorities in India's capital Delhi on Tuesday ordered people to stay home over...

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The Netherlands, under a strict COVID-19 lockdown for the past two weeks, will reopen primary and...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Riot police with batons and shields broke up a crowd of several thousand who had gathered in Amsterdam...

LONDON (Reuters) - England reported a record high daily total of 162,572 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, up from...

PARIS (Reuters) -France became the sixth country in the world to report more than 10 million COVID-19 infections since the...

By Renju Jose and Sisipho Skweyiya SYDNEY (Reuters) - Although farewell celebrations to the pandemic year of 2021 were almost...

PARIS (Reuters) - The trial of Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the November 2015 Islamist attack that killed 130...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Friday announced plans to lift COVID-19 containment measures in January that had...

By Lasya Priya M and Aparupa Mazumder (Reuters) - Coronavirus deaths in Eastern Europe topped 1 million on Thursday, according...

By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines will impose tighter curbs in the capital region for the next two...