Public Health

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ali Sawafta GAZA/RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - After mandating vaccinations for workers and many students -...

By Rami Ayyub JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli pupils returned to school on Wednesday with mask requirements and mandatory COVID-19 testing aimed...

By Adrian Portugal MANILA (Reuters) - Scores of healthcare workers protested in the Philippine capital on Wednesday to demand an...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean government officials were in last-ditch efforts on Wednesday to stave off a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department has raised its travel advisory alert for Canada to a "level  3 – reconsider travel" status...

By Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African scientists have detected a new coronavirus variant with multiple mutations but are...

By Anthony Boadle and Amanda Perobelli BRASILIA (Reuters) - Shaman Davi Kopenawa, chief of the Yanomami people who live on...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong will further relax a contentious plan to let non-local doctors practise in the city...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai lawmakers began a censure debate against Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Tuesday, as opponents threatened to...

By Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) -Just two weeks before her long-awaited vaccine appointment in Bangkok, Anyamanee Puttaraksa's 62-year-old mother became...

By Farah Master and Scott Murdoch HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's government is facing growing pressure from business lobby...

By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) -Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine contamination woes in Japan widened after two regions put temporary holds...

By Bart Biesemans BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Health authorities in Brussels began offering COVID-19 jabs in supermarkets and shopping centres on...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A plane carrying World Health Organization medicines and health supplies landed in Afghanistan on Monday, the UN health agency said,...

By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's rising output of COVID-19 vaccines and the inoculation of more than...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday extended a lockdown in Auckland by two weeks, while...

By Colin Packham and Jonathan Barrett CANBERRA (Reuters) -Intensive care cases in Australia's New South Wales will hit a peak...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Two people died after receiving Moderna Inc COVID-19 vaccine shots that were among lots later suspended following the...

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. intelligence community does not believe it can resolve a debate over whether a...

By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India administered more than 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses on Friday, a national...