Public Health

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -World Health Organization members reached a preliminary agreement this week to gradually raise their mandatory...

JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI/DAKAR (Reuters) -Africa is seeing an uptick in COVID-19 infections, largely driven by a doubling in cases reported in South...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The COVID-hit city of Shanghai is making more resources available to improve vaccination rates among the elderly...

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation on Wednesday calling on the State Department...

By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union executive proposed on Wednesday laws to curb excessive litigation aimed at silencing...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia will ease more COVID-19 curbs from the start of next month, including lifting restrictions on...

By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission is set to say the EU has entered a new post-emergency...

By Ted Hesson and Mica Rosenberg WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge in Louisiana said on Monday that he intends to...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy reported 56,263 new COVID-19 related cases on Sunday, against 70,520 the day before, the health ministry...

By David Stanway SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's major financial hub of Shanghai reported more new COVID-19 related deaths on April...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong will allow non residents to enter the financial hub from May for the first...

By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - The main hospital in Ethiopia's war-ravaged region of Tigray has sent home 240 patients...

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong reopened gyms, beauty parlours, theme parks and cinemas on Thursday for the first time in...

LONDON (Reuters) - G20 countries have provisionally agreed to set up a global fund for pandemic preparedness, likely to be...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol is at odds with a decision by the outgoing...

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's government said on Tuesday it has no plans to stop requiring masks...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Almost all residents of Indonesia's most populous island of Java have antibodies against COVID-19, owing to a...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Prime Minister Scott Morrison denied on Monday that his government would make cuts to Australia's universal healthcare...

By Kavya B and Aparupa Mazumder (Reuters) - Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 500 million on Thursday, according to a Reuters...

By Sumit Khanna AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - When COVID-19 infections peaked in India in April and May last year, the...