Public Health

By Gram Slattery and Augustin Geist RIO DE JANEIRO/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Throughout much of 2020 and early 2021, South...

(Reuters) - Quebec, the second most populous Canadian province, has "no choice" but to allow some essential workers to continue...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian theatres and other cultural venues won an initial legal victory on Tuesday to reopen after the...

(Reuters) -Research by South African scientists suggests that Omicron could displace the Delta variant of the coronavirus because infection with...

BERLIN (Reuters) -The German government will present draft legislation to protect people with disabilities and pre-existing conditions if over-stretched hospitals...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has lifted a travel ban on eight southern African countries that had been among the...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong health authorities said on Tuesday the city would tighten quarantine rules for air cargo...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian health authorities were conducting contact tracing on Tuesday after detecting the Southeast Asian country's first case...

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has approved emergency use of Sinopharm's protein-based COVID-19 vaccine and it will be...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia recorded another record surge in COVID-19 infections on Tuesday as an outbreak of the highly infectious Omicron...

By Benoit Nyemba KINSHASA (Reuters) - At the St Joseph COVID Treatment Centre in Kinshasa, patients lie in ramshackle rooms breathing...

RAMAT GAN, Israel (Reuters) -An Israeli hospital administered fourth COVID-19 vaccine doses to a test group of health workers on...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Argentina almost doubled on Monday from Friday to 20,263 new infections, according...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will not vaccinate his 11-year-old daughter against COVID-19, he said on Monday, maintaining...

ROME (Reuters) - Health experts urged the Italian government on Monday to relax COVID-19 quarantine rules, saying that the country...

ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian president's top media aide Garba Shehu said on Saturday that he has tested positive for...

By Neha Arora NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India will start administering COVID-19 booster shots as a precautionary measure to healthcare and...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya will offer COVID-19 booster shots to individuals six months after their initial shots, the health ministry...

By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The Biden administration will lift travel restrictions on eight southern African countries imposed last month over...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans without symptoms of COVID-19 will no longer need to isolate or test if they have...