Mar 26, 2020

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the Netherlands rose by 1,019, or 16%, to 7,431, health authorities said on Wednesday. The Netherlands National Institute for Heal...

Mar 26, 2020

The outbreak of COVID-19 started in December 2019 in Wuhan, China and has since spread around the globe, infecting nearly 500,000 people and resulting in more than 22,000 deaths (at writing), and the ...

Mar 25, 2020

By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Summer heat is unlikely to stop the spread of the coronavirus, and every country in Europe is forecast to run out of intensive care beds by mid-April unl...

Mar 25, 2020

(This March 23 story corrects paragraph 14 to show organization's name is Economic Development Corporation, not Empire Development Corporation) By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - It had neve...

Mar 25, 2020

(Reuters) - Myanmar reported its first confirmed cases of coronavirus in two men who had recently traveled to the United States and the United Kingdom. The Southeast Asian nation had been the most ...

Mar 24, 2020

By William James and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) - The number of coronavirus deaths in Britain jumped on Tuesday, the first day of a national lockdown, while the government called for 250,000 volun...

Mar 24, 2020

RIYADH (Reuters) - Leaders from the Group of 20 major economies will convene a video conference on Thursday to discuss the coronavirus epidemic, the Saudi secretariat said, amid criticism that the gro...

Mar 24, 2020

By Raul Cadenas and Nathan Allen MADRID (Reuters) - Nurses and doctors demanded action after Spain reported its sharpest daily increase in coronavirus cases on Tuesday and said about 14% of the nea...

Mar 24, 2020

By Crispian Balmer and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Fatalities in Italy from coronavirus have surged in the last 24 hours, the Civil Protection Agency said on Tuesday, dashing hopes the epidemic ...

Mar 24, 2020

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An analysis of coronavirus patients' voices could yield a "vocal fingerprint" to help detect COVID-19 symptoms in others and prioritize testing and treatment, the Israeli Defence...

Mar 24, 2020

By Elvira Pollina ROME (Reuters) - Italy hopes to become self-sufficient in producing protective masks against the coronavirus outbreak within two months, the national commissioner for the emergenc...

Mar 24, 2020

PARIS (Reuters) - Renault workers in Spain have begun using 3D printers to manufacture visors for health workers from home, the French carmaker said on Tuesday, in a scheme that could be expanded to m...

Mar 24, 2020

MADRID (Reuters) - The number of new coronavirus cases in Spain jumped on Tuesday to 39,673 from 33,089 cases registered on Monday, the health ministry reported on Tuesday. The number of fatalities...

Mar 24, 2020

By Cynthia Kim and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Tuesday doubled a planned economic rescue package to 100 trillion won ($80 billion) to save companies hit by the coronavirus and put...

Mar 24, 2020

By Kirsti Knolle VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria will massively expand coronavirus testing in coming days to locate and isolate infected people and avoid an Italian-like overload of its health system, C...

Mar 24, 2020

BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany has risen by 4,764 within a day to reach to 27,436, the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases said on Tuesday. It sai...

Mar 24, 2020

By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - When panic over the coronavirus spurred a run on hand sanitizer in Cape Town, gin maker Andre Pienaar realized there was something he could do with all the wa...

Mar 24, 2020

By Umit Bektas and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's government increased support for elderly people isolated at home and tightened restrictions on food shopping and travel on Tuesday afte...

Mar 24, 2020

By Alexander Winning and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African businesses braced for a nationwide lockdown and panic buyers stockpiled food and other essentials on Tuesday a...

Mar 24, 2020

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - A key modeling study from Singapore has found that putting multiple social lockdowns in place - including school closures - will have the biggest impact on curbin...