Infectious Diseases

KYIV (Reuters) - The World Bank has approved an additional $150 million loan to help Ukraine speed up vaccinations against...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union wants Russia to de-escalate the tension it created by amassing troops on the border...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have peaked in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban...

By Yew Lun Tian and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) - China is not worried about a "domino effect" of diplomatic...

By Stephanie Nebehay and Josephine Mason GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization warned wealthy countries on Thursday against hoarding COVID-19...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Slovakia is to give cash handouts to people over 60 who get vaccinated against the coronavirus or...

By Alistair Smout and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Thursday implored people to obey tougher restrictions to slow the...

LONDON (Reuters) - An investigation into alleged lockdown parties in Downing Street last year will look at three gatherings and...

By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's COVID-19 infections are falling in contrast with rebounds in other parts of Asia,...

By Kate Holton and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed tougher COVID-19 restrictions in England...

By Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin apologised to the public on Wednesday after a photo surfaced...

By Ludwig Burger and Michael Erman (Reuters) -BioNTech and Pfizer said on Wednesday a three-shot course of their COVID-19 vaccine...

By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) - A Harvard-educated epidemiologist with a penchant for red bow ties, Karl Lauterbach became a...

By Reuters Staff (Reuters) - Many countries are rolling out COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, but there is no consensus among...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has so far been detected in the Americas in Argentina, Brazil,...

LONDON (Reuters) - An adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has quit after a video surfaced of her laughing...

PARIS (Reuters) - The French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday that the fifth wave of the COVID-19 epidemic...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has reported its fourth case of the Omicron coronavirus variant, TV Asahi said on Wednesday. The...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Stricter coronavirus restrictions increase people's willingness to receive the vaccine against the coronavirus, a survey in the...

By Edward McAllister, Libby George and Stephanie Nebehay DAKAR (Reuters) - Up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to...