Coronavirus News & Updates

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. regulators cleared giving a third Covid-19 vaccine dose to people with weakened immune systems to improve protection for those with impaired responses to...

(Bloomberg) -- China partly shut the world’s third-busiest container port after a worker became infected with Covid, threatening to further disrupt global trade. All inbound and...

(Bloomberg) -- The delta-variant virus outbreak roiling Sydney is worsening as it spreads into regional areas of Australia, with several media outlets reporting Thursday that...

(Bloomberg) -- Sydney’s delta-outbreak cases have reached a new peak even as the Australian city nears the end of its fifth week under strict stay-at-home orders, triggering...

(Bloomberg) -- Oil steadied near a two-week high after U.S. crude and fuel stockpiles posted strong declines, signaling peak summer demand remains robust despite a resurgence of...

(Bloomberg) -- So-called long Covid is set to soar among younger people in England when remaining coronavirus restrictions are lifted, England’s chief medical officer warned. Chris...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Victoria state on Wednesday extended a snap COVID-19 lockdown for a second week in Melbourne in a bid to contain an outbreak of the...

(Bloomberg) -- Melbourne’s lockdown will be extended beyond the initial seven days announced last week as authorities struggle to contain a Covid-19 cluster that’s grown to 60 and...

(Bloomberg) -- Gathering restrictions will be imposed in Melbourne as authorities race to clamp down a small cluster of Covid-19 cases in Australia’s second-most-populous...

* * Coronavirus sweeps through India * Biden says U.S. fuel shortages to end in days (Updates prices, adds detail) By Ahmad Ghaddar LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on...

By Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) - Italy's hopes of producing its own COVID-19 vaccine have been thrown into doubt after the state audit court rejected a plan to pump public funds...

By Gabriel Stargardter RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, addressing the nation last month in a social media video, touted the latest in a string of...

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan's Foxconn on Friday forecast a 15% rise in second-quarter revenue as the work-from-home boom spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic extends, boosting demand for...

By Chen Lin and Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore announced on Friday the strictest curbs on social gatherings and public activities since easing a COVID-19 lockdown...

By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) -The origin of the novel coronavirus is still unclear and the theory that it was caused by a laboratory leak needs to be taken seriously...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore set to open on May 26 has a "high chance" of being postponed, a Hong Kong official said on Friday, which...

By Gabriel Stargardter (Reuters) -Chinese biotech firm Kintor Pharmaceutical Limited saw its stock price jump by more than 20% the day after it announced on April 25 that it had...