Infectious Diseases

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's Victoria reported 29 new locally acquired coronavirus cases on Saturday, the highest daily jump this year,...

By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina will relax coronavirus restrictions as infection and mortality rates falls, the government announced...

By Ngouda Dione and Cooper Inveen DAKAR (Reuters) - At Dalal Jamm hospital in Dakar, only the whooshing sound of...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian officials warned Sydney residents on Friday to brace for a surge in COVID-19...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court gave the brother of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a one-year suspended sentence on Friday...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government is committed to beginning the new school year in September with face-to-face teaching, Prime Minister...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police have charged a DJ with violating the country's controversial pornography law after the 28-year-old staged...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga apologised on Friday for accidentally skipping parts of a speech in Hiroshima to...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will extend its social distancing curbs by two weeks as the government...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has administered COVID-19 vaccines to 38.9 million people, about 27% of its population, health minister Mikhail Murashko...

By Lisa Marie David and Jay Ereno MANILA (Reuters) -Chaos overtook several COVID-19 vaccination sites in Manila on Thursday as...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece imposed a night time curfew and banned music on two popular tourist islands on Thursday to...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea plans to invest 2.2 trillion won ($1.9 billion) to become one of the...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's Health Ministry on Thursday said it has granted a conditional approval for the Moderna COVID-19...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Some members of a government expert panel warned that a recent surge in COVID-19 cases was severe...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Olympics organisers on Thursday reported 31 new Games-related COVID-19 cases, bringing the total since July 1...

By Roshan Abraham and Kavya B (Reuters) - Coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 200 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters...

By Byron Kaye and Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's New South Wales reported one of the country's youngest deaths from...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The gender disparity in India's COVID-19 immunisation drive has narrowed, government data showed on Wednesday, as...

By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Vaccination campaigns against the coronavirus in Latin America should prioritize vulnerable groups such...