Vaccines

LONDON (Reuters) - New mask mandates and other measures aimed at curbing the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant came...

By Edward McAllister and Tom Daly DAKAR/BEIJING (Reuters) - China will deliver another 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Olaf Scholz, who is set to take over as German chancellor next week, supports making vaccination against...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to prepare an action plan within the next week...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The COVID-19 Omicron variant was detected in the Netherlands before two flights arrived from South Africa last...

By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's health commissioner has urged governments to boost efforts to detect coronavirus...

By Stephanie Nebehay and Alexander Winning GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday the Omicron coronavirus variant...

PARIS (Reuters) - The French government will send police reinforcements, including an elite SWAT team, and extend a curfew in...

By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The postponement of the World Trade Organization's ministerial conference this week all but guarantees months...

DAKAR (Reuters) - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that the world needed to resist unjustified and unscientific...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday he was deeply concerned about the isolation...

LONDON (Reuters) - G7 health ministers praised South Africa on Monday for the work it has done in detecting the...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) -The heavily mutated Omicron coronavirus variant is likely to spread internationally and poses a very...

By Nancy Lapid and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) - As scientists race to understand the consequences of the Omicron COVID-19 variant,...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea said on Monday it has shelved plans to further relax COVID-19 restrictions due...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Monday it would delay the reopening of its international border by...

GENEVA (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday the World Health Organisation required reliable financing with higher donations...

By Elizabeth Piper and Toby Sterling LONDON/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Omicron coronavirus variant spread around the world on Sunday, with...

PARIS (Reuters) -France's Health Ministry said on Sunday it had detected eight possible cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant across...

By Promit Mukherjee and Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday that authorities were...