Coronavirus News & Updates

By Eduardo Simões and Gabriel Stargardter SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, speaking to a rally of bikers on Saturday, said he could count on police...

By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland heads to the polls on Sunday in a batch of referendums which could see the country become only the second in the world to ban...

CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden brought a sharply different tone to the Group of Seven summit from his predecessor Donald Trump by allowing frank and...

By Steve Holland and Guy Faulconbridge CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) -The Group of Seven richest democracies sought on Saturday to counter China's growing influence by offering...

By Michel Rose and Steve Holland CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) -The United States is back as a cooperative leader of the free world under President Joe Biden, France's Emmanuel...

By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday expressed "serious concern" about rising infections of the Delta variant of coronavirus,...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain reported 12 new deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test on Saturday and a further 7,738 cases of the virus, official government data showed....

CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) - Rising COVID case numbers and hospitalisations are a matter of "serious, serious concern", British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday,...

By Hadeel Al Sayegh and Marwa Rashad DUBAI (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia has restricted the annual Haj pilgrimage to its own citizens and residents for the second year running in...

By Michael Holden ST BLAZEY, England (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth met U.S. President Joe Biden under the canopy of the world's largest indoor rainforest on Friday as she...

By Michael Holden FALMOUTH, England (Reuters) -Blimps of Joe Biden and Boris Johnson floated off the Cornish coast on Friday as hundreds of protesters targeted the G7 summit in...

By Michael Erman (Reuters) - The U.S. Food & Drug Administration on Friday said Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) must throw away millions of doses of its COVID-19 vaccine that were...

By Kate Holton and Elizabeth Piper CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) -A Group of Seven plan to donate 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries lacks ambition, is far too...

(Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to delay lockdown lifting to July 19 after cases of the Delta variant, first identified in India, rose in the country, The...

By David Brunnstrom, Tom Daly and Michael Martina WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed the need for cooperation and transparency over the...

CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the other leaders of the world's most advanced economies on Friday that their G7 summit was a chance to...

FALMOUTH, England (Reuters) - The Group of Seven leaders will jeopardise the chance of success at a landmark global climate change summit later this year if they fail to honour...

By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's hopes of ending England's coronavirus lockdown on June 21 hung in the balance on Friday as data showed a...

By Michel Rose and Steve Holland CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) -Boris Johnson cast the Group of Seven summit as a "gigantic media circus" on Thursday after leaders were paraded...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain reported 8,125 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, an increase of 732 from a day earlier and the highest daily total since February 26, government statistics...

CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed on Friday to redouble their efforts to secure a trade...

By Elizabeth Piper CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) - The Group of Seven has failed its first test, British former prime minister Gordon Brown said on Friday, describing pledges to...

LONDON (Reuters) - The estimated COVID-19 reproduction "R" number in England has risen to between 1.2 and 1.4 with the daily growth rate of infections also up compared to last...

CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed U.S. President Joe Biden as "a big breath of fresh air" on Thursday because he wanted to work with...

LONDON (Reuters) - The prevalence of COVID-19 infections in England is estimated to have risen to 1 in 560 people in the week to June 5 from 1 in 640 the week before, Britain's...

(Reuters) - Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: G7 to donate 1 billion vaccine doses to poorer countries British Prime Minister Boris Johnson expects the...

By Sakura Murakami and Chang-Ran Kim TOKYO (Reuters) -The Japanese government is considering ending a state of emergency in Tokyo and several other prefectures as scheduled on...

CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) -Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) wealthy nations begin a three day meeting in Cornwall, England, on Friday, discussing issues ranging from...

By Humeyra Pamuk, Andrea Shalal and Robin Emmott WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - In 2017 the president of the United States shocked Washington's Western allies during his first...

By Prasanta Kumar Dutta (Reuters) - India began an inoculation drive for its 1.38 billion people in earnest in mid-January. Healthcare, frontline workers and the elderly were the...

OSLO (Reuters) - Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) has cut July deliveries of its COVID-19 vaccine to Norway by 400,000 doses, delaying the Nordic country's vaccine rollout, the company and the...

CAIRO - (Reuters) - Qatar Airways wrote in a tweet on Thursday that it would resume flying British and Irish nationals and UK residents to London from Qatar and across their...

CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) - A hotel, which British media reported was being used by members of Germany's delegation to a Group of Seven summit in England, has closed because...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A recent improvement in the number of new coronavirus cases in Germany was pleasing, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday but she warned that the pandemic...

By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is likely to agree on Friday to let people who are fully vaccinated against coronavirus travel freely within the bloc...