Public Health

By Javier Barbancho MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez urged unity on Tuesday as the country marked its...

By Francesco Guarascio BRDO, Slovenia (Reuters) - Drugmakers may face stricter rules to ensure the supply of medicines in the...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Developing nations and the head of the United Nations on Monday demanded a fairer global distribution of...

By Aradhana Aravindan and Anshuman Daga SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore is opening its borders to more countries for quarantine-free travel as...

(Fixes typographical error in headline) By Moira Warburton VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada's health and long-term care industries are bracing for...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecution said on Sunday it had ordered the arrest of three people after thousands of...

By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Sydney was set to reopen after months in lockdown, officials said on Sunday, with businesses...

By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia was bracing for more COVID-19 infections and hospitalisations, officials said on Saturday, even...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will accept the use by international visitors of COVID-19 vaccines authorized by...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil is in talks to buy up to 150 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for...

By Manojna Maddipatla NEW YORK (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) this week issued a definition for "long COVID,"...

(Official correction to say maximum capacity on outdoor discos 75%, not 70%) ROME (Reuters) -Italy increased the maximum attendance capacity...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Brazilian agency that regulates health insurance plans has opened an investigation into allegations that a hospital...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden and Denmark said on Wednesday they are pausing the use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for younger...

By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's public health agency is proposing a revision of COVID-19 rules which...

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam is planning from December to reopen key tourist destinations to vaccinated visitors from countries deemed a...

By Manas Mishra (Reuters) - The effectiveness of the Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE vaccine in preventing infection by the coronavirus dropped...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's Delta variant outbreak spread beyond the largest city of Auckland, prompting Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia reported more than 1,900 new infections of the Delta coronavirus on Sunday, health data showed, with...

By Kavya B and Roshan Abraham (Reuters) -Worldwide deaths related to COVID-19 surpassed 5 million on Friday, according to a...