Public Health

BEIJING (Reuters) - Border areas in China's northeastern province of Jilin, which shares a long frontier with coronavirus-hit North Korea,...

By Emma Farge, Jennifer Rigby and Mrinalika Roy GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization assembly passed a motion on...

(Reuters) - About 200 confirmed and more than 100 suspected cases of Monkeypox have been detected so far outside of...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A World Health Organization assembly on Thursday voted to adopt a Western-led resolution condemning Russia's actions in...

By Emma Farge and Jennifer Rigby GENEVA (Reuters) - Hundreds of health ministers and diplomats from around the world meet...

By Michael Erman (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc will make all of its patented medicines including COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid and big-selling...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark will receive 200 monkeypox vaccines from the Netherlands this week and is working on buying thousands...

By Ludwig Burger and Riham Alkousaa (Reuters) -Germany has ordered 40,000 doses of a Bavarian Nordic vaccine to be ready...

By Emma Farge and Jennifer Rigby GENEVA (Reuters) - African countries raised an objection on Tuesday to a U.S.-led proposal...

By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) - Billed a COVID-19 success story as its economy boomed through the pandemic, Taiwan is...

By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea said on Tuesday there were no new deaths among fever patients in the...

By Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's nominee for health minister, Chung Ho-young, on Monday withdrew his candidacy for...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Taiwan's bid to attend the World Health Organization's annual assembly was rejected on Monday, the assembly said, after...

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said it expects to identify more cases of monkeypox as...

By Jennifer Rigby and Emma Farge LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization...

By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) -Global health officials have sounded the alarm over rising cases in Europe and elsewhere...

By Brenda Goh and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Shanghai reopened a small part of the world's longest subway...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway has begun searching for possible cases of monkeypox in the capital Oslo, the country's Institute of...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel on Saturday reported its first confirmed case of monkeypox, which officials expected would be contained. The...

By Eduardo Baptista and Laura Lin BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Shanghai cautiously pushed ahead on Saturday with plans to restore part of...