Public Health

VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta saw its biggest protest yet against COVID rules on Sunday, with hundreds of people marching in...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing will require travellers to get a COVID-19 test within 72 hours of arrival in the Chinese...

LONDON (Reuters) - England's health service said it will expand its COVID-19 booster vaccination programme to include 16- and 17-year-olds...

By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The COVAX global vaccine-sharing programme has delivered 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses, one of...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Saturday that he had tested positive for COVID-19 and would...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Thousands of people took to the streets of Austria's capital on Saturday to protest against government plans...

By Sonali Paul and Sudipto Ganguly MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Clinging to his dream of winning a record 21st major title...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported 1,054 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the highest daily increase in three months, as the...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia has likely neared the peak of its Omicron wave, authorities said on Saturday,...

By Daniela Desantis MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguay has opened its borders to citizens and residents even if they are infected...

By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday announced the reopening of stores, hairdressers and gyms,...

By Alistair Smout and Nikolaj Skydsgaard (Reuters) - A surge in coronavirus cases caused by the Omicron variant may have...

By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong is following mainland China's zero-tolerance approach to control COVID-19, rankling many...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy on Thursday banned hunting and several other outdoor activities in two northern regions affected by a...

PARIS (Reuters) - A French administrative tribunal on Thursday suspended an order that masks be worn on the streets of...

OSLO (Reuters) - The Norwegian government will partly reverse a ban on serving alcohol in bars and restaurants, one of...

By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has eased its COVID-19 rules on testing, quarantine and hospital admissions...

LONDON (Reuters) - England's deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam, whose use of colourful metaphors and similes became a hallmark...

By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - After nearly two years of border closures to protect North Korea against the pandemic,...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - World Health Organization Emergency Director Mike Ryan on Wednesday refuted statements made by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro...