TAIPEI: Taiwan will extend its coronavirus curbs by two more weeks until July 12, as the situation has yet to reach a point...
TAIPEI: Taiwan will extend its coronavirus curbs by two more weeks until July 12, as the situation has yet to reach a point...
SYDNEY/WELLINGTON: Australia's largest city of Sydney re-introduced "soft touch" COVID-19 curbs on Wednesday to contain a widening outbreak of the highly infectious Delta...
TOKYO: Japan's daily rate of coronavirus vaccinations has reached a crucial milestone of 1 million, government data showed on Wednesday, as authorities scramble...
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has made an agreement to procure 13 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer, the country's health minister said on...
BENGALURU - India on Tuesday declared a new coronavirus variant to be of concern, and said nearly two dozen cases had been detected...
Global leaders must declare Covid-19 vaccines as a public good, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said at the Qatar Economic Forum, as the...
BENGALURU: Volunteer groups are spreading the word about getting COVID-19 shots to India's poor and elderly, and ferrying some to vaccination centres in...
BANGKOK: A Thai medical committee has agreed to narrow the gap between doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to eight weeks from 10-12...
HANOI: One million doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine will be transferred to Vietnam weekly starting next month to fulfil its order of 30...
Mumbai/Chennai: A najana Lalaji Bise's precious last photograph of her husband is a picture he sent to her on WhatsApp a few days...
ALMATY: Kazakhstan warned on Tuesday that the more infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus had reached its capital as other Central Asian countries...
KATHMANDU: Hong Kong resident Tsang Yin-Hung, who made the fastest ascent of Mount Everest by any woman, and dozens of other mountaineers from...
Colombo: Nearly a hundred carcasses of turtles with throat and shell damage, as well as dozens of dead dolphins and a blue whale,...
MANILA: A community in the Philippines has been raffling off huge sacks of rice in exchange for getting vaccinated against COVID-19, after finding...
Sydney: Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), on Tuesday reported its biggest rise in new locally acquired COVID-19 cases in nearly...
MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to jail people who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Philippines battles one of...
TAIPEI: Taiwan needs a thorough review of how it handled the COVID-19 pandemic once it is over, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Monday...
New Delhi: India gave out a record 5 million vaccine doses on Monday under a federal campaign to inoculate all adults for free...