TOKYO: Japan decided on Thursday to expand its COVID-19 emergency restrictions to cover more than 70% of the population, as a surge in...
TOKYO: Japan decided on Thursday to expand its COVID-19 emergency restrictions to cover more than 70% of the population, as a surge in...
SYDNEY: Sydney recorded its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday as authorities launched an investigation into a beach party suspected of...
SEOUL: South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday he plans to invest 2.2 trillion won ($1.92 billion) to turn the country into...
SINGAPORE: For months, Briton Jamie Pierre has been trying to get approval to travel to Singapore for his new job there. But after...
China imposed new travel and movement restrictions amid a delta-driven outbreak that’s grown to over 500 symptomatic cases scattered across half the country,...
SHANGHAI - Chinese state media on Wednesday reported that many minors are able to purchase e-cigarettes in the country despite a ban on...
BEIJING: China reported on Wednesday the most new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since January as some cities stepped up restrictions, cut flights and...
SEOUL: South Korea posted a sharp increase in its coronavirus cases on Wednesday as it struggled to tame its fourth wave of infections...
HANOI: Vietnam will slash the duration of mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors from two weeks to just seven days, its health ministry said...
TOKYO: Japan warned on Wednesday that coronavirus infections were surging at an unprecedented pace as new cases hit a record high in Tokyo,...
SYDNEY: Australia's New South Wales reported one of the country's youngest deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, as daily infections lingered near a 16-month...
BANGKOK: Visitors to Thailand's resort island of Phuket in July were at just 1% of pre-pandemic levels, an official told Reuters, as a...
JAKARTA: Indonesia recorded a grim milestone of more than 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, data from the country’s health ministry showed, with...
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin defied on Wednesday mounting pressure to quit, saying he retained majority support among lawmakers and would...
Kabul: A blast near the office of Afghanistan's main security agency wounded three people on Wednesday hours after a bomb and gun attack...
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladesh on Tuesday extended the existing COVID-19 lockdown restrictions to be effective until Aug. 10 as the prevailing situation across...
MUMBAI - India's industrial hub of Maharashtra state eased COVID-19 restrictions in most districts on Tuesday, including in the financial capital of Mumbai,...
NAMYANGJU, South Korea: South Korean health workers staffing COVID-19 testing centres in the summer heat can now take a minute to peel off...
