Apr 16, 2020

(Reuters) - Various countries around the world are wondering when and how to ease coronavirus lockdowns, though the World Health Organization (WHO) is warning that should be done slowly...

Apr 16, 2020

PARIS (Reuters) - French healthcare company Sanofi and U.S. start-up technology company Luminostics said they were joining up to work on developing a smartphone-based self-testing solut...

Apr 16, 2020

(Reuters) - Biogen Inc said on Thursday it had joined a consortium to build a collection of biological and medical data, where its employees who had tested for and recovered from the co...

Apr 16, 2020

By now, many people have accepted social distancing as the new normal — but it still creates significant strain. Patients with existing mental health disorders may face an increase in symptoms, and ...

Apr 16, 2020

By Clotaire Achi CHEVILLY-LARUE (Reuters) - Doctor Christian Chenay is almost old enough to remember the 1918 Spanish flu and treated typhus sufferers during World War Two...

Apr 16, 2020

By Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Shoved to the ground, splashed with bleach or glared at on public transportation, health workers face a growing tide of hostility acr...

Apr 16, 2020

LONDON (Reuters) - Deaths from the novel coronavirus in England and Wales in March were highest among the old, those with underlying health conditions and men, according to official dat...

Apr 16, 2020

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has approved a ventilator from medical device company Penlon which will be built as part of a consortium including Airbus and Rolls-Royce in a bid to combat t...

Apr 15, 2020

By Stephanie Nebehay and Jeff Mason GENEVA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday he regrets U.S. President Donald Trump'...

Apr 15, 2020

By Andreas Rinke and Holger Hansen BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has achieved a "fragile intermediate success" in its the fight against the coronavirus and will take small st...

Apr 15, 2020

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters) - With most Americans under stay-at-home orders to help contain the spread of the novel coronavirus and more than 2 million people infected glob...

Apr 15, 2020

By Inti Landauro and Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) - Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday promised more coronavirus testing to try to build on a decline in daily COVID...

Apr 15, 2020

By Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Despite Brazil's backlog of more than 90,000 specimens awaiting coronavirus testing and a rising death toll, laboratories are idle due t...

Apr 15, 2020

By Kylie MacLellan and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's coronavirus outbreak is probably peaking, but it is too early to start relaxing restrictions, officia...

Apr 15, 2020

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark eased its coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday by reopening schools and day care centres, but concerns they might become breeding grounds for a second wave o...

Apr 15, 2020

By Khanh Vu HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam will extend its coronavirus lockdown in 12 provinces, including Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, for seven days, although restrictions wil...

Apr 15, 2020

By Yew Lun Tian and Huizhong Wu SUIFENHE, China (Reuters) - China has approved early-stage human tests of two experimental vaccines to combat the new coronavirus as the co...

Apr 15, 2020

By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nursing homes account for nearly half of all coronavirus-related deaths in Belgium, data showed on Wednesday, in what may serve as a...

Apr 15, 2020

(Reuters) - The number of cases of COVID-19 reported worldwide passed two million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally. The total reached 2,001,548 cases after the Uni...

Apr 15, 2020

GENEVA (Reuters) - Countries that ease restrictions imposed to fight the spread of the coronavirus should wait at least two weeks to evaluate the impact of such changes before easing ag...