Coronavirus News & Updates

(Corrects date of court ruling in second paragraph) MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor has blocked jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's website,...

By Tarek Amara and Angus McDowall TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia faced its worst crisis in a decade of democracy on Monday after President Kais Saied ousted the government and froze...

By Mei Mei Chu and Artorn Pookasook KUALA LUMPUR/BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand reported a record number of coronavirus infections on Monday, while neighbouring Malaysia has more...

LONDON (Reuters) - It is a long road back to business as usual from the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of Britain's coronavirus genome sequencing effort told Reuters, adding she was...

By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Monday as concerns about fuel demand from the spread of COVID-19 variants and floods in China offset expectations of tight...

By Linda So WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Top infectious disease official Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that Americans who are immune compromised may end up needing COVID-19 vaccine...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Belfast Trust, which runs hospitals in the Northern Irish capital, called on nurses to work later on Sunday and overnight to help ease "extreme pressure" at...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain reported 29,173 further cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, a fall from 31,795 a day earlier, Public Health England said. It said on Twitter that data for the...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff said on Sunday he fears the number of new coronavirus cases in Germany could soar to 100,000 a day in about two months...

By Olesya Astakhova KOROLYOV (Reuters) - Russian World War Two veteran Nikolai Bagayev feels like he has cheated death twice. This time though, the enemy was not the German troops...

By Elena Rodriguez and Joan Faus MADRID (Reuters) - Spaniards who took one of the biggest hits from COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic are now among some of the keenest when it...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Friday reported 36,389 further cases of COVID-19 and 64 more deaths within 28 days of a positive test, according to official data.

LONDON (Reuters) - The COVID-19 reproduction "R" number in England is estimated at between 1.2 and 1.4, the government's latest weekly estimate said on Friday, unchanged on the...

By Natalie Thomas HENHAM PARK, England (Reuters) - Thousands of people poured into the grounds of the Latitude music festival in eastern England on Thursday, one of the biggest...

LONDON (Reuters) - The prevalence of COVID-19 infections in England is estimated to have risen to 1 in 75 people in the week to July 17, Britain's Office for National Statistics...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's vaccine rollout has begun to slow the spread of COVID-19 infections and the country is getting ready for a booster third dose, Health Minister Carolina...

LONDON (Reuters) - British plans to roll out daily contact testing within the food chain to prevent workers from having to isolate when 'pinged' by the COVID-19 app could cover up...