Infectious Diseases

By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday called on shareholders to recognise...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand on Tuesday postponed its phased border re-opening plans until the end of February over concerns of...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia must move past "the heavy hand of government" and authorities must stop shutting down people's lives...

By Neha Arora and Shilpa Jamkhandikar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has recorded 200 cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant...

By William James LONDON (Reuters) -Boris Johnson issued the latest of a string of denials on Monday that he and...

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - A growing number of countries are reducing the wait time for COVID-19 vaccine boosters from...

By Miranda Murray BERLIN (Reuters) -German leaders are considering tougher contact restrictions and an accelerated booster campaign among other measures...

LONDON (Reuters) - Most adults in Britain think it likely that Boris Johnson will not be prime minister by the...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Guardian newspaper on Sunday published a photograph of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and more than a...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel on Monday added the United States to its "no-fly" list, citing concerns over the spread of the...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai woman has tested positive to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in the Southeast Asian...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities urged a "move away from fear" of the coronavirus on Monday, resisting calls to make...

By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's health minister on Sunday declined to rule out the chance of further COVID-19 restrictions...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has confirmed its first case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, the health ministry said on Sunday,...

PARIS (Reuters) - French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said on BFM television that the government has no plans to extend...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government is considering new measures to avoid a surge in COVID-19 infections during the holiday period,...

LONDON (Reuters) - New COVID-19 restrictions are inevitable as without them Britain will see public services such as the National...

LONDON (Reuters) - The British government is monitoring the latest COVID-19 data on an almost hourly basis and will do...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientific advisors to Britain's government said it was "almost certain" that hundreds of thousands of people were...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientific advisors to Britain's government said it was "almost certain" that hundreds of thousands of people were...