Public Health

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland on Friday reported its highest number of daily COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began but those...

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Bhutan has started giving COVID-19 booster shots to senior citizens and priority groups as...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Officials in the northwestern Chinese city of Xian are facing punishment after a COVID-19 outbreak led to...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa will start offering booster shots of Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine from Friday, the...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A fire in the intensive care unit of a COVID-19 hospital killed two people on Friday in...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia on Friday narrowed the wait time for people to receive COVID-19 booster shots as another record jump...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic will require all foreigners visiting the country to have a negative PCR coronavirus test...

By James Macharia Chege and Josephine Mason JOHANNESBURG/LONDON (Reuters) -Omicron advanced across the world on Thursday, with health experts warning...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's coronavirus death toll passed the 600,000 mark on Thursday, Reuters calculations based on official data showed,...

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada will temporarily expand support programs to help people and businesses hit by the Omicron...

LONDON (Reuters) - The British government said that from Wednesday it was reducing the COVID-19 self-isolation period to seven days...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium will close cinemas and theatres and play sporting fixtures behind closed doors immediately after Christmas in...

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that...

By Reuters Staff PARIS (Reuters) - France has cancelled its order for Merck & Co's COVID-19 antiviral drug following disappointing...

By Catarina Demony and Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's health minister on Wednesday predicted the Omicron variant would trigger...

(Reuters) - Merck & Co Inc has signed deals to sell about 9 million courses of its experimental COVID-19 pill...

By Francesco Guarascio and Pushkala Aripaka (Reuters) - The Serum Institute of India (SII) has waived its protection from legal...

By Emma Rumney and Estelle Shirbon JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - COVID-19 cases appear to have peaked in South Africa's Gauteng province...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's strict COVID-19 policy is weighing on consumption and rattling foreign firms, but its effectiveness and the...

By Neha Arora and Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's capital New Delhi on Wednesday banned Christmas and other...