Public Health

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -More than a dozen Chinese-listed companies said they had suspended production in coronavirus-hit parts of China's eastern Zhejiang...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel announced on Sunday it was adding Britain and Denmark to its "red" list of countries that Israelis...

By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The EU's Justice Commissioner received "brutal" treatment last month in Warsaw, a member of...

By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso ruled on Saturday that the country must...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people rallied in Vienna on Saturday in protest against restrictions introduced to halt...

KYIV (Reuters) - The World Bank has approved an additional $150 million loan to help Ukraine speed up vaccinations against...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The health authority in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong said on Saturday that one case of...

By Maggie Fick NAIROBI (Reuters) - Now that rich nations are sharing more COVID-19 shots with Africa, health officials across...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Surging interest in vaping among young New Zealanders may undermine a government crackdown on...

(Reuters) -New Zealand plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world's...

By Stephanie Nebehay and Josephine Mason GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization warned wealthy countries on Thursday against hoarding COVID-19...

By Alistair Smout and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Thursday implored people to obey tougher restrictions to slow the...

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved a Republican measure that would overturn President Joe...

(Reuters) - New Zealand on Thursday said it will ban young people from buying cigarettes for life, one of the...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - Several parents associations in South Korea held protests on Thursday against a vaccine pass...

By Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin apologised to the public on Wednesday after a photo surfaced...

By Anna Mehler Paperny and Allison Lampert TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's ban on travelers from southern African countries and its...

By Ludwig Burger and Michael Erman (Reuters) -BioNTech and Pfizer said on Wednesday a three-shot course of their COVID-19 vaccine...

By Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) - Arrival of the highly-mutated Omicron variant is a wake-up call to develop vaccines less susceptible...

By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) - A Harvard-educated epidemiologist with a penchant for red bow ties, Karl Lauterbach became a...