Infectious Diseases

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is on high alert against COVID-19 as the New Year holiday looms, with the city of...

MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian authorities started to impose stringent rules on Thursday to prevent mass gatherings at new year's...

By Crispian Balmer and Alexandra Alper ROME/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global COVID-19 infections hit a record high over the past seven-day...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland became the latest country to smash its previous record number of daily COVID-19 cases on Wednesday,...

By Nia Williams CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Healthcare unions are opposing Quebec's decision to allow some asymptomatic workers infected with...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland reported 794 COVID-related deaths on Wednesday, the highest number in the fourth wave of the pandemic,...

By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan braced for a feared rebound in coronavirus cases as the highways and airports...

By Renju Jose and Sonali Paul SYDNEY/MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia will seek to make urgent changes to COVID-19 testing rules...

By Gram Slattery and Augustin Geist RIO DE JANEIRO/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Throughout much of 2020 and early 2021, South...

BERLIN (Reuters) -The German government will present draft legislation to protect people with disabilities and pre-existing conditions if over-stretched hospitals...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has lifted a travel ban on eight southern African countries that had been among the...

By Benoit Nyemba KINSHASA (Reuters) - At the St Joseph COVID Treatment Centre in Kinshasa, patients lie in ramshackle rooms breathing...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Argentina almost doubled on Monday from Friday to 20,263 new infections, according...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will not vaccinate his 11-year-old daughter against COVID-19, he said on Monday, maintaining...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly two-thirds of Japanese voters support Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government, with the public welcoming his anti-coronavirus...

ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian president's top media aide Garba Shehu said on Saturday that he has tested positive for...

By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - Two more members of the K-pop group BTS on Saturday tested positive for COVID-19...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland on Friday reported its highest number of daily COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began but those...

By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira LISBON (Reuters) - Vitor Chitas started queuing at 6 a.m. on Christmas Eve for...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Officials in the northwestern Chinese city of Xian are facing punishment after a COVID-19 outbreak led to...