Southern Africa

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) has retained its lockdown at 'adjusted level 1', or the...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa reported a record number of new daily COVID-19 infections on Wednesday in a fourth wave believed...

By Alexander Winning and Wendell Roelf JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine has been less effective in South Africa at...

LONDON (Reuters) -The British government will remove all 11 countries from its COVID-19 travel red list from Wednesday because there...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, is still showing mild symptoms and...

By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday described the late FW de Klerk as...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - African governments will have no choice but to start imposing vaccine mandates if citizens refuse to get...

By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A proposal to change South Africa's constitution to explicitly allow expropriation of land with...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will not require stricter domestic COVID restrictions in the run-up to Christmas because vaccines had put...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Healthcare disruptions linked to the coronavirus pandemic helped malaria kill 69,000 more people in 2020 than the...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thousands of striking workers at companies under Massmart Holdings in South Africa, which is owned by Walmart...

(Reuters) - European Union health ministers will discuss the coronavirus pandemic and the spread of the Omicron variant on Tuesday,...

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia has detected the Omicron coronavirus variant in 18 of 19 samples sequenced between Nov. 11-26, its...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa is preparing its hospitals for more admissions, as the Omicron coronavirus variant pushes the country into...

By Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Higher hospital admissions among children during a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections in South Africa...

MANILA (Reuters) - Asia-Pacific countries should boost their healthcare capacity and fully vaccinate their people to prepare for a surge...

By Jeff Mason and Joseph Nasr WASHINGTON/BERLIN (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Thursday laid out his strategy to fight...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The new Omicron variant of the coronavirus poses a threefold higher risk of reinfection than the currently dominant...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's public health agency said on Thursday that the Omicron variant could be responsible for...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is deploying a surge team to South Africa's Gauteng province, epicentre of...