Public Health

By Diego Oré and Roberto Ramirez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico is likely to surpass 300,000 deaths from COVID-19 this...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile will begin offering a fourth shot of the coronavirus vaccine next week to immunocompromised citizens, the...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria is working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, President Muhammadu Buhari said in a televised interview on...

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Peru, which has one of the world's highest COVID-19 mortality rates per number of...

BERLIN (Reuters) -German towns have appealed to authorities for less "flying by the seat of your pants" and more "forward-thinking,"...

By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday people who have not taken COVID-19 shots...

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. military bases in Japan introduced stricter COVID-19 measures on Thursday after the host government expressed grave...

By Subrata Nagchoudhury and Krishna N. Das KOLKATA (Reuters) - Indian megacities Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata are experiencing a surge...

(Reuters) - British billionaire Richard Branson said on Thursday he was recovering from a "mild" case of coronavirus along with...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand on Thursday raised its COVID-19 alert level following rising infections driven by the spread of the...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama moved to require all public officials to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly coronavirus...

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Forces in Japan (USFJ) on Thursday said they have introduced stricter measures to tackle an increase...

By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - Attempts to deal with record waiting lists for hospital treatment caused by the COVID-19...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba tightened border controls on Wednesday as the Caribbean island nation moved to tamp down a growing...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Five cruise ships in Brazilian waters have reported 214 cases of COVID-19 among their crew and passengers,...

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria will require almost all travellers from the European Union to have a negative PCR coronavirus test...

By Alistair Smout and Maayan Lubell LONDON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Britain and Israel are overhauling their COVID-19 testing policies as governments seek...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Central Chinese cities including Yuzhou and Zhengzhou imposed varying degrees of travel curbs after sporadic COVID-19 cases,...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The southern Japanese island chain of Okinawa emerged on Wednesday as the epicentre of a new coronavirus surge,...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities have cancelled an annual procession, which normally draws millions of Catholic devotees accompanying a black...