Covid 19
Chinese city imposes travel curbs, closes public venues in new COVID-19 outbreak
BEIJING (Reuters) -A city in China's southeastern province of Fujian has closed cinemas and gyms, sealed off some entries and exits to highways and told residents not to leave town…
Poor countries say lack of vaccines may exclude them from climate talks
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) - The world's poorest countries asked for more help on Friday to meet vaccination and quarantine requirements and costs to ensure they can take part…
Remote learning is setting back millions of South Asian children – UNICEF
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Hundreds of millions of children in South Asian are suffering because their schools have been closed because of the coronavirus but they lack online devices and…
S.Korea planning to live ‘more normally’ with COVID-19 after October
By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is drawing up a plan on how to live more normally with COVID-19, expecting 80% of adults to be fully vaccinated by…
COVID-19 disruption causing many deaths from TB, AIDS in poorest countries, fund says
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people will die of tuberculosis left untreated because of disruption to healthcare systems in poor countries caused by the COVID-19…
Reopen schools or disaster looms, experts tell Indian authorities
By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Many top Indian epidemiolgists and social scientists are urging authorities to reopen in-person school classes for all age groups, saying the benefits…
India much better prepared ahead of possible COVID-19 third wave
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - As COVID-19 cases and deaths exploded in India in April and May, New Delhi's premier Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and several others ran so short of…
Mu: everything you need to know about the new coronavirus variant of interest
The World Health Organization (WHO) has added another coronavirus variant to its list to monitor. It’s called the mu variant and has been designated a variant of interest (VOI). What…
N.Korea’s Kim calls for preventing natural disasters and COVID-19 outbreaks
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged efforts to prevent natural disasters or coronavirus outbreaks from damaging the economy as he convened a meeting of the ruling…
COVID vaccine mandates – and prizes – boost uptake among Palestinians
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ali Sawafta GAZA/RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - After mandating vaccinations for workers and many students - and offering prize money - to nudge a sceptical public…
Warnings as Southeast Asia’s biggest economies ease COVID-19 curbs
By Matthew Tostevin and Stanley Widianto BANGKOK/JAKARTA (Reuters) - As Indonesia and Thailand start to ease COVID-19 curbs after seeing case numbers fall, health experts say cases of new infections…
China beats Taiwan to the punch in announcing new vaccine delivery
BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China beat Taiwan to the punch on Wednesday in announcing the delivery timetable for a highly politicised order of COVID-19 vaccines from BioNTech SE, saying the first 932,000…
