Coronavirus News & Updates

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Republican leaders in Florida and Texas - home to roughly a third of all new...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Health authorities in northern Mexico vaccinated hundreds of migrants living in makeshift tents a few meters from a pedestrian crossing bridge to the...

By Maria Caspani NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York City will become the first major U.S. city to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination at restaurants, gyms and other businesses, Mayor...

By Mica Rosenberg and Go Nakamura ROMA, Texas (Reuters) -The number of migrant children in Border Patrol facilities has been steadily rising, an analysis of U.S. government data...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional Democrats on Tuesday pushed the White House to reinstate an expired moratorium on residential evictions that kept...

(Reuters) - The United States has administered 347,377,149 doses of COVID-19 vaccines and distributed 401,229,975 doses in the country as of Tuesday morning, the U.S. Centers for...

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -For much of last year, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was perhaps the most trusted politician in America; his daily televised coronavirus briefings,...

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - During his last days before dying from COVID-19, 26-year-old Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Cody Myers played a breathing game...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roller skaters flocked to New York City's Central Park on a hot summer afternoon to sweat out their stress, twirling, shimmying and doing the splits as a DJ...

By Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Wuhan city will test its 12 million residents for the coronavirus after confirming its first domestic cases of the highly transmissible...

By Colin Packham and Renju Jose CANBERRA (Reuters) -Australian authorities said they could ease a COVID-19 lockdown that demands Sydney's five million people stay home until the...

By Akiko Okamoto, Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - The head of the Japan Medical Association called on Tuesday for a nationwide state of emergency to contain a...

By Joseph Ax and Nathan Layne (Reuters) -The U.S. states of Florida and Louisiana were at or near their highest hospitalization numbers of the coronavirus pandemic on Monday,...

LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Rishi Sunak said young people benefit from being in offices and he doubted the enduring professional relationships that he forged while...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned on Monday against travel to Greece, Ireland, Iran, the U.S. Virgin...

(Reuters) - Nearly three out of four Americans above the age of 18 have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease...

By Jeff Mason and Carl O'Donnell WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Cases of COVID-19, along with hospitalizations and deaths from it, have increased in the last week, U.S. officials said on...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday extended a Trump-era policy allowing for the expulsion of migrants across U.S. borders,...

By Deena Beasley LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With a new wave of COVID-19 infections fueled by the Delta variant striking countries worldwide, disease experts are scrambling to learn...

By Clara-Laeila Laudette and Corina Pons MADRID (Reuters) - Drawn by sun, sea and speedy Wi-Fi, remote workers are converging on Europe's southernmost islands to try...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A preponderance of evidence proves the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic leaked from a Chinese research facility, said a report by U.S. Republicans...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A pandemic-related U.S. government ban on residential evictions expired at midnight on Saturday, putting millions of American renters at...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will not lock down again to curb COVID-19 but "things are going to get worse" as the Delta variant fuels a surge in...

(Reuters) - The United States had administered 346,456,669 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Sunday morning, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

MILAN (Reuters) - Hackers have attacked and shut down the IT systems of the company that manages COVID-19 vaccination appointments for the Lazio region surrounding Rome, the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A COVID-19-related U.S. government ban on residential evictions expired at midnight Saturday, putting millions of American renters at risk of being forced...

By Lea Guedj and Yiming Woo PARIS (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Paris and other French cities on Saturday against a mandatory coronavirus health pass for entry to a...

By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Representative Cori Bush, who was evicted three times and lived in her car with her two children before her career in politics, spent...

(Reuters) - The United States had administered 345,640,466 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country and distributed 400,675,525 doses as of Saturday morning, the U.S. Centers for...

By Rich McKay (Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued an executive order on Friday blocking mask mandates in the state's schools, saying parents had the right to decide if...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on Friday there will be no nationwide mandate for Americans to get a...

By Daphne Psaledakis and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet virtually with Southeast Asian officials every day next week, a senior...

(Reuters) -The Olympics host city Tokyo, as well as Thailand and Malaysia, announced record COVID-19 infections on Saturday, mostly driven by the highly transmissible Delta...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's special parliamentary sitting will be cut short after the detection of COVID-19 infections in the building, the legislative body said on...

By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) -Broadway audiences will need masks and proof of vaccination when shows reopen in the fall, an industry association said on Friday, while...