Public Health

By Chayut Setboonsarng and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand is scrambling to encourage its people to have more babies...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Mainland China has logged its highest number of daily new local symptomatic COVID-19 infections in about two years,...

BEIJING (Reuters) -The Chinese port city of Qingdao reported 88 new coronavirus cases for March 5, all of them of...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong reported 31,008 new COVID-19 cases and 153 deaths on Sunday as the city's chief...

JAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Indonesia is considering a quarantine waiver for foreign visitors to its holiday island of Bali from...

By Donny Kwok and Twinnie Siu HONG KONG (Reuters) -Two of Hong Kong's largest consumer retail chains started rationing some...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - About 100,000 doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine are at risk of being destroyed by the end of...

By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea began early voting on Friday for a presidential election in the shadow...

By Scott Murdoch and Anne Marie Roantree SYDNEY/HONG KONG (Reuters) - While Hong Kong clings to its "zero-COVID" policy, frustrations...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The World Health Organization does not expect any immediate impact on vaccine supply to Africa from Russia's...

By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's subway operator, bus and ferry companies, and one of its biggest...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern sought to cool simmering resentment over the slow...

By Mehmet Emin Caliskan KYIV (Reuters) - Sitting on a temporary bed set up along a gloomy underground passageway, expectant...

By Michael Erman (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc is expected to provide around 10 million courses of its highly effective COVID-19...

By Jennifer Rigby and Manojna Maddipatla (Reuters) -A first shipment of medical aid for Ukraine will arrive in Poland on...

By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) - The international reputation of Hong Kong as a financial hub has been "very...

By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) -Any decision to impose a COVID-19 lockdown in Hong Kong will take into account...

By Rama Venkat BENGALURU (Reuters) - Almost two years after India went into the world's biggest lockdown to slow the...

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - Ukraine is running low on critical medical supplies and has had to halt urgent...

By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong residents braced for a city-wide lockdown, emptying supermarkets and pharmacies, even as...