Infectious Diseases

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

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has found a further 101 confirmed cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant, the UK Health Security...

LONDON (Reuters) - Early indications suggest that the Omicron coronavirus variant is more transmissible than the earlier Delta variant, British...

LONDON (Reuters) - Early indications suggest that the Omicron coronavirus variant is more transmissible than the earlier Delta variant, British...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Mandatory vaccinations against the coronavirus are an "absolute last resort", the World Health Organization's top Europe official said...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will not require stricter domestic COVID restrictions in the run-up to Christmas because vaccines had put...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Healthcare disruptions linked to the coronavirus pandemic helped malaria kill 69,000 more people in 2020 than the...

By Tim Cocks PRETORIA (Reuters) - The students knew their South African university was the epicentre of a new COVID-19...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's health minister said on Monday there is now community transmission of the Omicron variant of the...

(Reuters) - Future pandemics could be more lethal than COVID-19 so the lessons learned from the outbreak must not be...

By Josh Smith and Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea imposed stricter measures on Monday to contain growing coronavirus...

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia has detected the Omicron coronavirus variant in 18 of 19 samples sequenced between Nov. 11-26, its...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Monday reported its first confirmed cases of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Russian...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina has detected its first case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in a person who had...

By Eloisa Lopez and Jay Ereño MANILA (Reuters) - Some children in the Philippines' capital Manila returned to school on...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Karl Lauterbach of Germany's Social Democrats will serve as health minister and current justice minister Christine Lambrecht...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed on Monday to ensure worker wage...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa is preparing its hospitals for more admissions, as the Omicron coronavirus variant pushes the country into...

By Tommy Wilkes LONDON (Reuters) - Africa has little chance of overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic unless 70% of its population...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's tally of reported cases of the heavily mutated Omicron variant of the coronavirus rose to 12...