Coronavirus News & Updates

LONDON (Reuters) - British workers are spending more time working from home compared with pre-pandemic times despite the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, according to official...

(Reuters) - Residence permits issued for the first time in the European Union climbed close to pre-pandemic levels last year, with Poland leading the bloc due mostly to...

By Farah Master, Albee Zhang and Casey Hall HONG KONG (Reuters) - Seeing Chinese authorities exercise extraordinary powers during a stringent COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai earlier...

By Martin Quin Pollard and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -When Chinese businesswoman Yang Jing was planning this year's summer holiday in 2021, she chose the...

By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea will convene two key meetings, including one to review the country's anti-epidemic policy, in coming weeks, state media said on...

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden has tested negative for COVID-19 after testing positive with a breakthrough case for days, the White House physician said...

By Esther Verkaik AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of partygoers flocked to Amsterdam on Saturday for the return of the city's Pride canal parade after two years of...

(Reuters) - The United States declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency, a move that may increase health agency access to funds and allow the government new...

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Republican voters on Tuesday chose a raft of candidates supporting Donald Trump's 2020 election falsehoods in multiple party primaries for the November...

By Yimou Lee, Fabian Hamacher and Ann Wang TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan is preparing its air-raid shelters as rising tension with China and Russia's invasion of Ukraine raise new...

By Jennifer Rigby and Julie Steenhuysen LONDON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - As the third winter of the coronavirus pandemic looms in the northern hemisphere, scientists are warning weary...

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand's borders fully re-opened to visitors from around the world on Monday, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic closed them...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden is feeling well and continuing his isolation measures after again testing positive for COVID-19, his physician...

By Jennifer Rigby SPIEZ, Switzerland (Reuters) - The setting is straight from a spy thriller: Crystal waters below, snow-capped Swiss Alps above and in between, a super-secure...

By Jarrett Renshaw and Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again on Saturday in what the White House doctor described as a...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Austrian leaders appealed for national unity after a doctor who faced death threats from anti-vaccination activists and coronavirus pandemic conspiracy...

By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea reported no new fever cases on Saturday for the first time since its acknowledgement in mid-May of a COVID-19 outbreak in the...

By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) -British Airways-owner IAG (LON:ICAG) on Friday returned to profit for the first time since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic as demand for...

By Manas Mishra and Michael Erman (Reuters) -Pfizer Inc did not raise its 2022 forecast for sales of its COVID-19 vaccine and antiviral treatment on Thursday, and its shares fell...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan urged Russia to exclude areas around disputed northern islands from military drills Moscow is planning to conduct in the country's Far East from late...

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - The oldest patient yet has been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant for leukaemia, researchers reported on Wednesday. While...

By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's state-run National Health Service (NHS) is facing its worst ever staffing crisis with thousands of vacancies and the government...

NICOSIA (Reuters) - EU member states should start preparing now for a new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in autumn and winter, the bloc's health chief said on Monday, saying there...

By Natalie Grover, John Revill and Jennifer Rigby (Reuters) -The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organization's highest...

By Susan Heavey and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden appeared virtually at a White House meeting of economic advisers on Friday to highlight his...

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Joe Biden, the oldest person ever to serve as president of the United States, has tested positive for...

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealanders are dying from COVID-19 at record rates as the country battles a new wave of the Omicron strain that is particularly...

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in many countries, spreading smoke that contains noxious gases, chemicals and particulate matter and...

(Reuters) - Many world leaders and senior officials have contracted COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic more than two years ago. Some, such as Canada's Justin Trudeau and...

By David Kirton and Roxanne Liu SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) -China's southern megacity of Shenzhen vowed to "mobilise all resources" to curb a slowly spreading COVID-19 outbreak,...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia reported one of its highest daily death tolls from the novel coronavirus on Thursday while hospital admissions hovered near record levels, as...

By Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) - European nations must accelerate vaccine uptake and bring back mask wearing to tackle a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by an Omicron offshoot...

By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) - Feeling cooped up by the Chinese capital's partial COVID-19 lockdown earlier this year, which shut gyms, parks and other venues, Beijing...

By Julie Steenhuysen and Jennifer Rigby CHICAGO/LONDON (Reuters) - Sexual health clinics on the frontline of the monkeypox response are already financially stretched, leaving the...

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - Europe is sweltering under a record-breaking heatwave, with a number of governments issuing health emergency alerts. WHAT ARE THE RISKS? Heat...