Public Health

MADRID (Reuters) -Spain's two-week COVID-19 contagion rate kept rising on Monday, reaching 368 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, officials said, more...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte conceded on Monday that coronavirus restrictions had been lifted too soon in the...

By Julie Steenhuysen and Michael Erman CHICAGO (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc's push for health regulators to authorize a third dose...

BENGALURU (Reuters) -Opening India's tourist destinations and allowing pilgrimage travel could act as COVID-19 "super spreaders" of a third wave...

By Daewoung Kim and Dogyun Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Plenty of gym-goers rely on a good tune to get themselves...

By Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) - As talks for Taiwan to access BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine via...

MANILA (Reuters) - The number of Filipinos willing to get inoculated against the coronavirus rose to 43% in June from...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa extended tight COVID-19 rules on Sunday for another 14 days, maintaining restrictions that include a ban...

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel said on Sunday it will begin offering a third dose of Pfizer Inc's vaccine...

By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Australia reported its first locally contracted COVID-19 death of the year on Sunday and a...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia reported 25,033 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 5,410 in Moscow, taking the official national tally...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea reported 1,324 new coronavirus cases as of midnight on Saturday, the Korea Disease Control and...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - For the first time, a majority of Brazilians support impeaching President Jair Bolsonaro, according to...

HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam has received 2 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine donated by the U.S. government, the American...

By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Several countries promised to help Tunisia fight the coronavirus on Friday as the north...

By Nathan Allen MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Canary Islands and its Mediterranean region of Valencia have asked the government to...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia recorded around 428,000 excess deaths from April 2020 to May this year during the coronavirus pandemic,...

By Stephanie Nebehay and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Health workers are struggling to get medicines and supplies into Afghanistan where...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines on Friday loosened coronavirus restrictions to allow children out of their homes so they can...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil registered the highest number of deaths and lowest number of births in the first six...