Public Health

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) -Members of South Korea's main trade union defied government coronavirus restrictions on Friday to rally...

(Reuters) - China is delivering two million COVID-19 vaccine shots to Myanmar this week to help fight a growing outbreak...

VALLETTA (Reuters) - A group of 128 French students who all tested positive for coronavirus will be flown home on...

(Reuters) - Angered by doctors' support for anti-junta protests, Myanmar's military has arrested several doctors treating COVID-19 patients independently, colleagues...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will wait a few weeks before considering easing COVID-19 restrictions beyond Monday's planned resumption of indoor...

By Tom Allard JAKARTA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged Indonesia to implement a stricter and...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - YouTube said on Wednesday it had removed videos from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's channel for...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian police said on Wednesday they had dismantled an alleged criminal ring that had charged as much...

By Mohammed Benmansour MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Inspired by her late father's career, Mona decided to join the military...

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian President Kais Saied said on Wednesday that the military health department will take over management of...

By Paresh Dave and Karolos Grohmann FUKUSHIMA/TOKYO (Reuters) -The Japanese women's softball team got the Tokyo 2020 Olympics off to...

(Reuters) - The vast majority of new COVID-19 cases in Spain in the past five weeks were detected among non-vaccinated...

By Ngouda Dione and Cooper Inveen DAKAR (Reuters) - With COVID-19 cases surging across Senegal, Pape Gueye made the difficult...

By Ankur Banerjee and Neha Arora (Reuters) -India's excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic could be as high as 4.9...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An inquiry recommended on Tuesday delaying local government elections planned in South Africa on Oct. 27, saying...

By Ann-Kathrin Weis and Andi Kranz AHRWEILER, Germany (Reuters) - Red Cross volunteers and emergency services in Germany deployed emergency...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Foreign reporters covering the Tokyo Olympics were surprised to learn that what they thought was a chance...

By Mohammed Benmansour JAMARAT, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 during the Muslim haj...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's prime minister and defence minister apologised as hundreds of COVID-19-infected sailors were flown...

(Reuters) - Myanmar politician Nyan Win, a senior adviser to ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, died in hospital on...