Infectious Diseases

By Nikolaj Skydsgaard and Jennifer Rigby COPENHAGEN/LONDON (Reuters) - For many people worldwide, having cotton swabs thrust up their nose...

LONDON (Reuters) -British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said on Monday he would resign if police decide he broke COVID-19...

LONDON (Reuters) - A person in England has been diagnosed with a rare viral monkeypox infection thought to be linked...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Shanghai said on Friday it has brought China's worst outbreak of COVID-19 under effective control following a month-long...

LONDON (Reuters) - British police said on Friday they would investigate opposition leader Keir Starmer over a potential breach of...

By David Stanway SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is setting up thousands of permanent PCR testing stations, with 9,000 already completed...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing reported 66 new domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections during the past 24 hours, a disease control official...

By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's main opposition Congress party on Friday demanded a hefty rise in...

By Jennifer Rigby (Reuters) - Almost three times as many people have died as a result of COVID-19 as official...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard will continue with plans to visit Central America and the Caribbean,...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Beijing will cut the time that people have to stay in quarantine facilities when they arrive in...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong will further ease COVID-19 restrictions, allowing bars to open until 2 a.m. and raising...

By Brenda Goh and Sophie Yu SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -China's commercial capital of Shanghai was dealt a blow on Monday as...

By Nellie Peyton DAKAR (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday urged debt relief for African countries and more...

By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Two new sublineages of the Omicron coronavirus variant can dodge antibodies from earlier infection...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's financial hub of Shanghai has reined in COVID transmission risks at the community level, excluding cases...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - China's lockdowns to control the spread of COVID-19 are "cruel" and Taiwan will not follow suit, Premier...

(Reuters) - Russia's total number of COVID-related deaths has exceeded 803,000 since the start of the pandemic in April 2020,...

By Yew Lun Tian and Soo-hyang Choi BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) -China has suspended cross-border freight train services with North Korea following...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -As many as 12.38 million Shanghai residents, nearly half the population of China's financial hub, are now in...