Coronavirus News & Updates

BERLIN (Reuters) - Medical diagnostics company Qiagen offset a sharp fall in demand for COVID-19 products at the end of the year with a strong performance in its core businesses,...

By Gabriela Baczynska and Krisztina Than BUDAPEST/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday called for European Union financing for border fences,...

By Mariko Katsumura and Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - The popularity of Japan's crisp powder snow among foreign skiers, surging back into the country, is luring more to seek the...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain and Morocco's first bilateral summit in eight years on Thursday sees the countries seek to strengthen economic ties and build on a diplomatic truce...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Siemens Healthineers confirmed its full-year outlook on Thursday despite a drop in quarterly profit driven by low demand in China, as it saw strong order growth...

RABAT (Reuters) - More than 71 million international tourists visited Spain in 2022, spending on average more money and time in the country than before the COVID-19 pandemic,...

By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - England's National Health Service (NHS) on Monday announced a two-year recovery plan to help restore emergency care and frontline services,...

By Ambar Warrick Investing.com -- Gold prices kept to a tight range on Monday as traders hunkered down in anticipation of a Federal Reserve meeting this week, with focus also...

By Maria Cardona and Diane Bartz MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) -The specialized police unit that included the five Memphis officers charged with the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols was...

By Alyssa Pointer and Steve Gorman MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) -Tyre Nichols repeatedly cried, "Mom! Mom!” as the five Memphis police officers now charged with the Black motorist's...

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) -Lunar New Year holiday trips inside China surged 74% from last year after authorities scrapped COVID-19 travel curbs, state media reported on...

PARIS (Reuters) - France has extended mandatory COVID tests for travellers from China until Feb. 15, a government decree published on Saturday showed. While Chinese officials...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain, one of the last countries in Europe to still require people to wear masks on public transport to prevent the spread of COVID-19, will likely lift the...

(Reuters) -The U.S. health regulator has withdrawn emergency-use authorization for AstraZeneca (NASDAQ:AZN)'s COVID-19 antibody cocktail Evusheld as the treatment is not expected...

By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) - British car production fell nearly 10% in 2022 due to an ongoing global semiconductor shortage and pandemic-related lockdowns in China, but...

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Critically ill COVID-19 cases in China are down 72% from a peak early this month while daily deaths among COVID-19 patients in hospitals have dropped 79% from...

By Alasdair Pal and Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Chris Hipkins, who became New Zealand's new prime minister on Wednesday, built a reputation for competence in tackling...

By Jennifer Rigby (Reuters) -The World Health Organization (WHO) is investigating whether there is any connection between manufacturers whose contaminated cough syrups it has...

By Kwang JirapornKuhakan PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - Hitting the white sand beaches and eating mango sticky rice and seafood, Chinese tourists are returning to Thailand for their...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has written to Pope Francis to say that war between Taiwan and China is not an option and only by respecting the Taiwanese...

By Alessandro Diviggiano BEIJING (Reuters) -China rang in the Lunar New Year on Sunday with its people praying for health after three years of stress and financial hardship under...

By Kwang JirapornKuhakan PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - Hitting the white sand beaches and eating mango sticky rice and seafood, Chinese tourists are returning to Thailand for their...

By Lucy Craymer and Alasdair Pal WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Chris Hipkins, set to become New Zealand's prime minister, built a reputation for competence in tackling COVID-19, though...

By Liz Lee and Alessandro Diviggiano BEIJING (Reuters) -People across China crowded into trains and buses for one of its busiest days of travel in years on Friday, feeding fears...

By Charlie Devereux and Corina Pons MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish city of Malaga and its Costa del Sol surroundings are seeing a surge in people moving in from the rest of Europe...

By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -A Uyghur rights group’s legal challenge against the British government for not investigating the import of cotton produced in the Chinese region of...

By Bernard Orr and Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of COVID patients needing critical care in China's hospitals has peaked, health authorities said on Thursday,...

GENEVA (Reuters) - China reported a large jump in COVID-19 hospitalisations in the week through to January 15 to the highest since the pandemic began, according to a weekly report...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has not identified any evidence linking strokes to an updated coronavirus vaccine made by U.S. drugmaker Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and its German partner...

By Lewis Jackson and Alasdair Pal (Reuters) -New Zealand's ruling Labour Party is looking for a new leader after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's shock resignation on Thursday....

By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) - Former high school teacher Ailia was devastated when her 85-year-old father died after displaying COVID-like symptoms as the virus swept...

By Martin Quin Pollard and Engen Tham BEIJING (Reuters) - During a busy shift at the height of Beijing's COVID wave, a physician at a private hospital saw a printed notice in the...

By Joyce Zhou and Martin Quin Pollard HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - China resumed on Sunday high-speed rail services between Hong Kong and the mainland for the first time since...

By Tony Munroe BEIJING (Reuters) -China said on Saturday nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospital since it abandoned its zero-COVID policy last month, a huge...

By William James LONDON (Reuters) -Britain criticised on Thursday what it said was the systematic erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong by the Chinese government and a crackdown on...