NEW DELHI - The coronavirus variant first identified in India is highly infectious and can be caught by people who have already had...
NEW DELHI - The coronavirus variant first identified in India is highly infectious and can be caught by people who have already had...
BANGKOK - Thailand will have its promised amount of COVID-19 vaccines for use during this month, a health official said on Friday, amid...
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has drawn up a list of possible successors that includes his daughter Sara, boxing star Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao...
Taipei: A large cargo ship hit a tall overhead crane in a Taiwanese port on Thursday, sending it smashing into another crane and...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong will open its COVID-19 vaccine scheme to children aged 12 and above for the first time, the government said...
TAIPEI: Taiwan's health minister said on Thursday it was still too early to talk about needing to raise the alert level and go...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Thursday readied for the possibility of an oil spill after a cargo ship laden with chemicals sank off its...
TAIPEI: Taiwan's health ministry will receive an extra T$79.2 billion ($2.87 billion) in spending to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, including buying vaccines, the...
BANGKOK: When restaurant owner Chirayu Na Ranong heard the Thai government announce new coronavirus restrictions in Bangkok in April, he burst into tears....
SYDNEY: Australia's second-most populous state Victoria reported just three new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, its lowest single-day rise in more than a week,...
India ordered 300 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine being developed by a local manufacturer, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government comes under...
BEIJING: China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) has the capacity to provide more than 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to the world beyond China...
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appealed to the public on Wednesday to get vaccinated against COVID-19, after data showed the government was far...
SINGAPORE: Singapore will allow usage of the coronavirus vaccine of China's Sinovac Biotech under its special access route, the city-state said on Wednesday,...
HANOI: Vietnam's health minister said on Wednesday that Russia had agreed to provide it with 20 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine Sputnik...
BANGKOK: Drugmaker AstraZeneca said on Wednesday it would soon provide Thailand with 1.8 million doses of locally manufactured COVID-19 vaccine, the first of...
Kabul: Two separate bomb blasts on two public transport buses killed at least 12 civilians in the Afghan capital Kabul, security officials said...
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is planning to pledge an additional $800 million to the World Health Organisation's COVAX programme, which provides...
