Coronavirus News & Updates

By Bernard Orr and Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of COVID patients needing critical care in China's hospitals has peaked, health authorities said on Thursday,...

By Lucy Craymer and Byron Kaye WELLINGTON/SYDNEY (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's sudden resignation on Thursday may have come as a shock to the rest of the...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong said it will no longer require people infected with COVID-19 to quarantine from Jan. 30, removing one of the last major coronavirus restrictions in...

By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) - Former high school teacher Ailia was devastated when her 85-year-old father died after displaying COVID-like symptoms as the virus swept...

By Sophie Yu and Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) -When Li's 83-year-old father with diabetes started coughing and complaining of body aches last month, the Beijing resident...

By Martin Quin Pollard and Engen Tham BEIJING (Reuters) - During a busy shift at the height of Beijing's COVID wave, a physician at a private hospital saw a printed notice in the...

LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday it recommended that China monitor excess mortality from COVID-19 to gain a fuller picture of the...

By Joyce Zhou and Martin Quin Pollard HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - China resumed on Sunday high-speed rail services between Hong Kong and the mainland for the first time since...

By Tony Munroe BEIJING (Reuters) -China said on Saturday nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospital since it abandoned its zero-COVID policy last month, a huge...

(Reuters) - David Kessler, who led the COVID-19 vaccine distribution efforts for the United States, is stepping down from President Joe Biden's administration, the Department of...

By Phyllis Xu, Xihao Jiang and Lion Schellerer SINGAPORE/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chu Wenhong would fly back to Shanghai and visit her parents at least once a year after she moved to...

(Reuters) - The fast-spreading Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 is estimated to account for 43% of the COVID-19 cases in the United States for the week ended Jan. 14, data from the...

(Reuters) - Vaccination rates among kindergarten children against potentially deadly diseases such as polio, measles and diphtheria fell in the 2021-2022 school year, extending...

By Joyce Zhou HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scores of mainland Chinese travellers are rushing to Hong Kong to receive mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which are not available on the Chinese...

By Bernard Orr and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) - People in China worried on Thursday about spreading COVID-19 to aged relatives as they planned returns to their home towns...

(Reuters) -Authorities around the world are imposing or considering curbs on travellers from China as COVID-19 cases there surge following its relaxation of "zero-COVID" rules....

By Jamie Freed (Reuters) -China's outbound flight bookings were at only 15% of pre-pandemic levels in the week after the country announced it would reopen its borders, despite a...

By Jennifer Rigby and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said it is working with China to manage the risks of COVID-19 surging again as...

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - An international meeting this week will discuss setting up a global system of wastewater monitoring for COVID-19, including at airports, after...

By Ahmed Aboulenein (Reuters) -The U.S. health department on Wednesday extended the COVID-19 pandemic's status as a public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans to...

(Reuters) -The Pentagon on Tuesday rescinded a controversial Biden administration mandate requiring that all members of the U.S. armed forces be vaccinated against COVID-19. U.S....

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) -Countries should consider recommending that passengers wear masks on long-haul flights, given the rapid spread of...

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - Genomic sequencing allowed the world to track new coronavirus variants throughout the pandemic. Now British researchers plan to use it to...

By Brenda Goh DINGYUAN, China (Reuters) - Weng Shuiye laid back in her chair, sighing with relief as oxygen flowed from a tank into her nostrils. Breathing problems, body aches...

By Yew Lun Tian and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) - People joined long queues outside immigration offices in Beijing on Monday, eager to renew their passports after China...

(Reuters) -Authorities around the world are imposing or considering curbs on travellers from China as COVID-19 cases there surged following its relaxation of "zero-COVID" rules....

By Joyce Zhou and Yew Lun Tian HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) -Travellers streamed into China by air, land and sea on Sunday, many eager for long-awaited reunions, as Beijing opened...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Protesters clashed with police in central China during a demonstration on Saturday by hundreds of people at a factory producing COVID-19 antigen kits, several...

By Brenda Goh and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -More countries around the world are demanding that visitors from China take COVID tests, days before it drops...

(Reuters) -Authorities around the world are imposing or considering curbs on travellers from China as COVID-19 cases there surged following its relaxation of "zero-COVID" rules....

By Xinghui Kok SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Southeast Asia's tourist economies are set to be leading beneficiaries of China's scrapping of travel bans as they have steered clear of the...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan has again offered to provide China with assistance to help it deal with a surge in COVID-19 cases but Chinese authorities have not yet responded,...

(Reuters) - The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Thursday launched a virtual program aimed at making antiviral treatments for COVID-19 available at home for those who...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong residents have swamped clinics to get vaccinated against COVID-19 ahead of the expected reopening of the city's border with mainland China, which...

(Reuters) - Belgium will test wastewater from planes arriving from China for new COVID variants as part of new steps against the spread of the coronavirus as infections in China...