Public Health

By Engen Tham and Eduardo Baptista SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai authorities were tightening the city-wide COVID lockdown they imposed more than...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai is tightening its already strict COVID-19 lockdown in a fresh push to eliminate infections outside quarantined...

LONDON (Reuters) - A person in England has been diagnosed with a rare viral monkeypox infection thought to be linked...

By Brad Brooks CONVERSE, Texas (Reuters) - Aidan Garza often talks about his dad in the present tense, as if...

By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's main opposition Congress party on Friday demanded a hefty rise in...

By Jennifer Rigby (Reuters) - Almost three times as many people have died as a result of COVID-19 as official...

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Citizens in European Union countries may be able to sue their governments for financial compensation...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A World Health Organization spokesperson on Tuesday confirmed that its European region would hold a special meeting...

By Brenda Goh and Sophie Yu SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -China's commercial capital of Shanghai was dealt a blow on Monday as...

By Daewoung Kim and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea has loosened rules requiring masks to be worn outdoors...

By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Two new sublineages of the Omicron coronavirus variant can dodge antibodies from earlier infection...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - China's lockdowns to control the spread of COVID-19 are "cruel" and Taiwan will not follow suit, Premier...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Suzhou Abogen Biosciences Co said its COVID-19 vaccine candidate using the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology and...

By Jarrett Renshaw and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden had "constructive" talks with Mexican counterpart President Andres...

(Reuters) - Russia's total number of COVID-related deaths has exceeded 803,000 since the start of the pandemic in April 2020,...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong government rule that all school students and staff take daily COVID-19 tests will...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -As many as 12.38 million Shanghai residents, nearly half the population of China's financial hub, are now in...

(Reuters) - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Thursday it was probing a Ukrainian report that a missile...

ROME (Reuters) - Face masks will remain compulsory in Italy on public transport and in some indoor venues until June...

By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) - Radiation levels in a part of Chornobyl's exclusion zone where Ukraine has said Russian...