Infectious Diseases

By Akiko Okamoto, Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - The head of the Japan Medical Association called on...

By Deena Beasley LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With a new wave of COVID-19 infections fueled by the Delta variant striking...

LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that he wanted to get the travel industry moving again...

By Ben Makori LONDON (Reuters) -Families and friends were overjoyed at London's Heathrow Airport on Monday after a travel rule...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that he wanted to get the travel industry moving...

By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Nilufar Rizki JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia aims to start gradually reopening its economy in September,...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Unvaccinated Hong Kong government employees, as well as education and health workers will soon have to...

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy reported five coronavirus-related deaths on Sunday, down from 16 the day before, the health ministry said,...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain reported 24,470 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, a drop from 26,144 on Saturday, and 65...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia extended restrictions outside Java island by another week in efforts to control the spread of the...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand on Sunday extended tighter containment measures in the capital and high-risk provinces probably until the end of...

By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Australia's east coast states of New South Wales and Queensland faced an escalating battle against...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia will begin offering a booster shot against Covid-19, switching between the AstraZeneca and Chinese COVID-19...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador has detected its first case of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus,...

By Juarawee Kittisilpa BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai hospital morgue overwhelmed by COVID-19 deaths has begun storing bodies in refrigerated...

(Reuters) -The Olympics host city Tokyo, as well as Thailand and Malaysia, announced record COVID-19 infections on Saturday, mostly driven...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Newly reported COVID-19 cases in Tokyo surged to a record high of 4,058 on Saturday, the metropolitan...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia extended a state of emergency in the eastern state of Sarawak until February 2022 to...

By Stephanie Nebehay and Michael Shields GENEVA (Reuters) - The world is at risk of losing hard-won gains in fighting...

By Byron Kaye and Swati Pandey SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian soldiers will help to enforce coronavirus isolation orders in the hard-hit...