Public Health

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea on Friday signed a deal to buy 30 million doses of Pfizer's COVID-19...

By Jill Gralow SYDNEY (Reuters) - Bilal El-Hayek and friend and volunteer Amer Yassine carry boxes of packaged meals onto...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India expects to get about 266 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in August as a simpler licensing...

By Lisa Barrington DUBAI (Reuters) - Philippine national Maya and her husband lost their low-paying jobs in the United Arab...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile on Wednesday began administering booster shots to those already inoculated with Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine in a...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey will start face-to-face education as scheduled, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Wednesday, and unvaccinated adults...

By Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba is bringing back hundreds of doctors working abroad and converting hotels into isolation...

By Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) -Vandals have attacked more than 20 vaccination centres and other health facilities, daubing some...

(Corrects paragraph 6 to show Andika's comment on equality in army selection was made last month, not last week) By...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader said on Wednesday the COVID-19 pandemic was the country's "number-one problem" and must urgently...

(Reuters) - Authorities in Myanmar currently have no plan to include minority Rohingya Muslims living in densely-packed camps as they...

LONDON (Reuters) - Booster shots for COVID-19 vaccines are not currently needed and the doses should be given to other...

(Reuters) - Myanmar's army carried out at least 252 attacks and threats against health workers since a Feb. 1 coup,...

By Kate Lamb (Reuters) - East Timor has recorded its first case of community transmission of the highly contagious Delta...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany wants to end free coronavirus tests in October, the RND group of newspapers reported on Monday,...

By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia extended its COVID-19 curbs on populous Java and Bali islands until Aug. 16, but...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China reported on Monday more COVID-19 infections in its latest outbreak of the disease, while some cities...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's three most populous states of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland reported a total of 282...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's second most populous state Victoria reported 11 new locally acquired coronavirus cases on Sunday, as the...

By Richard Lough PARIS (Reuters) -Protesters marched in cities across France on Saturday in a fourth consecutive weekend of demonstrations,...