WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and his aides have concluded something in recent weeks: The Mr. Nice Guy approach isn’t working. By introducing vast new vaccine mandates he once...

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian authorities on Wednesday extended the COVID-19 lockdown in Melbourne for another three weeks, as they shift their focus to rapid vaccination drives and move away from...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The BinaxNOW rapid SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection assay from Abbott does “not seem particularly useful” in symptomatic children and young adults aged 7 to 20...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the U.S. and people hunkered down in their homes to live and work, some people turned to a variety of legal and illegal drugs for...

JAKARTA (Reuters) – In the teeming, impoverished North Jakarta neighbourhood of Muara Baru, people have made a grim joke out of the acronym for the Indonesian government’s lockdown to combat...

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s health care system is collapsing due to the coronavirus, with intensive care departments full and doctors overburdened by a rapid outbreak of cases and deaths, the...

DEPOK, Indonesia, July 6 (Reuters) – Indonesian volunteer biker Sebastian Dwiyantoro and his team have been particularly busy helping ambulances navigate heavy traffic in Jakarta’s satellite...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – For more than a year, Haiti escaped the worst ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting few cases and fatalities – a rare break for the poorest country in the Americas,...

(Reuters) – An experimental new type of antibody drug from IGM Bioscience Inc may be more potent at inhibiting the coronavirus and its variants than antibody therapies currently in use, research...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration is forming expert working groups with Canada, Mexico, the European Union and the United Kingdom to determine how best to safely restart travel after...