Coronavirus News & Updates

(Updates prices) * Silver touches a more than 3-month peak * Dollar hits over one-week high, off multi-year lows * Interactive graphic tracking global spread of...

(For a Reuters live blog on U.S., UK and European stockmarkets, click LIVE/ or type LIVE/ in a news window) * New coronavirus strain 70% more transmissible * Europe imposes travel...

(For a live blog on the U.S. stock market, click LIVE/ ortype LIVE/ in a news window.) * Travel stocks drop on disruption fears * Big banks jump after Fed's stress test results *...

* New coronavirus strain overshadows U.S. stimulus deal * U.S. dollar rises to 10-day high * Pound drops close to 2% as virus disrupts freight * Euro, Aussie, NZ dollar fall as...

(Repeats with no changes to text or headline)* Futures fall: Dow 1.95%, S&P 2.17%, Nasdaq 1.39% By Devik Jain and Ambar WarrickDec 21 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures tumbled...

(Adds analyst comment, background) * Pound drops close to 2% as virus disrupts freight * Brexit talks deadlocked * New coronavirus strain overshadows U.S. stimulus deal * Graphic:...

(Corrects 2-1/2-year low for dollar index in 9th paragraph) * Pound drops more than 1% with Brexit talks deadlocked * New coronavirus strain overshadows U.S. stimulus deal *...

* New coronavirus strain vanishes rosy expectations for 2021 * U.K. imposes tougher virus curbs, neighbour countries shutdoors * U.S. rig count rises to highest since May -Baker...

LAGOS, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Nigeria's commercial capital,Lagos, ordered schools to shut indefinitely, banned concerts,carnivals and street parties and ordered certain civil...

By Felix OnuahABUJA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Nigeria expects to receive itsfirst doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in January, the country'shealth minister said on Wednesday, but officials do...

By Camillus EbohABUJA, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Nigeria's army headquarters wasisolating due to a COVID-19 outbreak during an annualconference, a spokesman said on Sunday, after health...

(Adds central bank projection, banking impact) By Andrea Shalal and Chijioke Ohuocha WASHINGTON/ABUJA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Nigeria's economy islikely to contract by 3.25% this year...

WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Nigeria's economy is expectedto contract by 3.25% this year before rebounding to growth of1.5% in 2021, the International Monetary Fund said on...

TOKYO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Oil rose around 1% on Friday,extending a sharp rally overnight that saw Brent rise above $50for the first time since March, as coronavirus...

(Adds details, quotes) By Felix Onuah Abuja, Dec 10 (Reuters - Nigeria may be on the verge of asecond wave of COVID-19 infections, the health minister warnedon Thursday, as another...

By Felix Onuah Abuja, Dec 10 (Reuters - Nigeria may be on the verge of asecond wave of COVID-19 infections amid rising number ofconfirmed cases in Africa's most populous country...

By Omar Mohammed NAIROBI, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Countries that have ordered moreCOVID-19 vaccines than they need should consider distributingexcess doses to Africa, the head of the...