Vaccines

PARIS (Reuters) - France is stepping up its COVID-19 booster vaccination campaign and tightening entry rules for arrivals from outside...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban health authorities said that researchers in the communist-run country are upgrading its homegrown COVID vaccines to...

By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal's government will not hesitate to increase restrictions over Christmas if needed to control a...

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - New infections and deaths from HIV/AIDS may increase as the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union needs daily reviews of its travel restrictions and rapid deployment of vaccine booster doses...

By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - New coronavirus variants highlight the need for countries to do their own research and...

By Alistair Smout, Francesco Guarascio and Chen Lin LONDON/BRUSSELS/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Governments around the world are urgently scouring databases for recent...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities on Wednesday flagged another probable case of the Omicron variant in Sydney as they braced...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's COVID-19 vaccination rate has risen to 96% of the eligible population and authorities are now racing...

By Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The Omicron coronavirus variant detected in southern Africa could be the most likely candidate...

By Ludwig Burger and Emma Thomasson FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - The World Health Organization warned countries on Tuesday not to impose...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Countries should apply "an evidence-informed and risk-based approach" with any travel measures related to the Omicron variant...

By David Ljunggren and Kanishka Singh OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada, seeking to halt the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, will...

VIENNA (Reuters) - An Austrian parliamentary committee on Tuesday, as widely expected, approved a decree extending the country's COVID-19 lockdown...

By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - On Friday Nov. 19, Raquel Viana, Head of Science at one of South Africa's...

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that it would keep the country's border with Peru closed in...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday said that it was likely booster COVID-19 vaccinations would increase...

LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal will open its biggest vaccination centre yet on Wednesday as a surge in COVID-19 infections forced...

By Ludwig Burger and Pushkala Aripaka (Reuters) -The EU drug regulator said on Tuesday it could approve vaccines adapted to...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) voiced concern on Tuesday that some...