Coronavirus News & Updates

GENEVA (Reuters) - Countries around the world on Saturday adopted an initial U.S.-led reform of the rules around disease outbreaks, known as the International Health Regulations...

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - Use of Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE)'s COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid spiked this week, but some doctors are reconsidering the pills for lower-risk patients...

By Jennifer Rigby GENEVA (Reuters) - Some prominent infectious disease experts are pushing for faster action from global health authorities to contain a growing monkeypox outbreak...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Trade Representative's office on Friday said it extended tariff exclusions on Chinese-made medical products needed to address the COVID-19...

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - A multi-billion dollar fund set up by G20 countries to help developing countries better prepare for pandemics could be operational within...

By David Stanway and Roxanne Liu SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai took more gradual steps on Friday towards lifting its COVID-19 lockdown while Beijing was investigating cases...

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oxfam America, Partners in Health and other civil society groups urged U.S. President Joe Biden to press for changes in a draft agreement...

(Bloomberg) -- Beijing reported a record number of Covid cases during its current outbreak, reviving concern the capital may face a lockdown as authorities seek to stamp out...

By Brenda Goh and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Shanghai reopened a small part of the world's longest subway system on Sunday after some lines had been closed...

By Eduardo Baptista and Laura Lin BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Shanghai cautiously pushed ahead on Saturday with plans to restore part of its transport network in a major step...

By Kristina Cooke and Mica Rosenberg (Reuters) -U.S. authorities were blocked by a federal judge on Friday from lifting COVID-19 restrictions that empower agents at the...

(Bloomberg) -- Shanghai found the first cases of Covid-19 outside of quarantine in six days, raising questions about whether the easing of the city’s lockdown will be...

By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - More Shanghai residents were given the freedom to go out to shop for groceries for the first time in nearly two months on Thursday as...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China has removed some COVID-19 test requirements for people flying in from countries such as the United States and shortened the pre-departure quarantine for...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday while on a trip to Berlin ahead of G7 meetings of health...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is not considered a close contact of daughter Ashley Biden, who has tested positive for COVID-19, White House spokesperson Karine...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley, has tested positive for COVID-19, the White House said on Wednesday. Ashley Biden, 40, was scheduled to travel...

By David Stanway and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Health authorities in Shanghai faced "huge" pressure to keep China's most populous city free of COVID-19 as...

By Edward McAllister and Cooper Inveen DAKAR/ACCRA (Reuters) - It's noisy inside the Mamprobi clinic in Accra as kids clamber over their mothers while they wait to get their...

By David Stanway and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai achieved its long-awaited milestone of three consecutive days with no new COVID-19 cases outside...

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that...

By Leroy Leo and Michael Erman (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has decided not to authorize the antidepressant fluvoxamine to treat COVID-19, saying that the...

By SungHyuk An and Heejung Jung SEOUL (Reuters) - Standing tall in bright red hazmat suits, five North Korean health workers stride towards an ambulance to do battle with a...

By Josh Smith and Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) -Leader Kim Jong Un has ordered North Korea's military to stabilise distribution of COVID-19 medicine in the capital, Pyongyang, in the...

By Brenda Goh and Kevin Yao SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai set out plans on Monday for the end of a painful COVID-19 lockdown that has lasted more than six weeks, heavily...

By Josh Smith and Byungwook Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Sunday a total of 42 people had died as the country began its fourth day under a nationwide lockdown aimed at...

(Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern tested positive for COVID-19 with moderate symptoms, her office said in a statement on Saturday. She will not be in...

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Shanghai was tightening its COVID-19 lockdown for what it hoped would be the final week of its battle with the virus before it could gradually begin...

By David Stanway and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Locked-down Shanghai aims to ringfence its COVID outbreak over the next week, officials said on Friday, while...

By Josh Smith and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea is facing its first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak with no known vaccine programme, sparking new calls for the government...

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday commemorated the COVID-19 deaths of 1 million people in the United States, marking what he...

By Hyonhee Shin and Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea's coronavirus outbreak threatens to deepen its already dire food situation this year, as a nationwide lockdown...

By Maria Caspani NEW YORK (Reuters) -The United States has now recorded more than 1 million COVID-19 deaths, according to a Reuters tally, crossing a once-unthinkable milestone...

By David Stanway and Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Last week, Elizabeth Liu and her husband were excited about the prospect of leaving their Shanghai residential compound for...

By Jennifer Rigby and Josephine Mason LONDON (Reuters) -The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday China's zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy is not sustainable given...