Public Health

(Reuters) - Authorities in Oman urged thousands of residents in coastal areas to leave their homes and head to emergency...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - All the barriers to register Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine with the World Health Organization (WHO) have...

(Reuters) - New Zealand officials reported 27 new cases of the highly infectious Delta coronavirus variant in Auckland on Saturday,...

By Lidia Kelly and Stefica Nicol Bikes MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia reported 2,357 new cases of the Delta coronavirus variant...

PARIS (Reuters) - The French seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases dropped below 5,000 again for the first time since...

(Reuters) - Morocco will soon start giving a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, the Health Ministry said on Friday....

By Marc Frank and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba is speeding up its COVID-19 vaccination program as it aims...

ZURICH (Reuters) -Swiss citizens who persuade their friends to get COVID-19 shots can look forward to a free restaurant meal...

BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Seven people died on Friday when a fire broke out in a Romanian intensive care unit treating COVID-19...

By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) -Typhoon winds and rain dampened what might have been a more celebratory mood in Tokyo...

By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A global scheme designed to ensure fair access to COVID-19 vaccines will this month...

By Aradhana Aravindan and Chen Lin SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's reimposition of coronavirus restrictions to buy time to prepare to...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea extended social distancing curbs to combat the coronavirus pandemic on Friday for...

By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd said on Friday that "human error" caused metal contaminants...

By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia recorded 9,671 deaths due to COVID-19 in September, the deadliest month since...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand logged 19 more cases of the highly infectious Delta coronavirus variant on...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has eased restrictions aimed at combating the coronavirus pandemic to the...

By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's first public oxygen plant opened on Thursday, in a ray of hope for...

IDLIB, Syria (Reuters) - In both the Syrian capital Damascus and parts of the country that have rebelled against its...

By Eduardo Simões (Reuters) - Brazil's Butantan biomedical institute is in talks to sell a locally manufactured COVID-19 vaccine developed...