WELLINGTON - New Zealand on Friday extended pandemic restrictions by four days after which they will be eased slightly, although businesses and schools...
WELLINGTON - New Zealand on Friday extended pandemic restrictions by four days after which they will be eased slightly, although businesses and schools...
SYDNEY - Sydney's COVID-19 cases slightly eased on Friday but still hovered near record levels as the Australian federal government looks to press...
NEW DELHI - India has asked the states of Kerala and Maharashtra to consider night curfews in areas with high COVID-19 case numbers...
China’s inactivated vaccines maintained their protective power during a recent outbreak of Covid-19 in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, providing real world...
LEIPZIG, Germany - Sayed Sadaat used to be communications minister in the Afghan government before moving to Germany last September in the hope...
NEW DELHI - India's air safety regulator said on Thursday it had cleared Boeing Co's 737 MAX aircraft to fly with immediate effect,...
KABUL, Afghanistan: An explosion went off Thursday outside Kabul's airport, where thousands of people have flocked as they try to flee the Taliban...
The United States and allies urged Afghans to leave Kabul airport on Thursday, citing the threat of an attack by Islamic State (IS)...
TOKYO: Japan suspended the use of 1.63 million doses of Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, more than a week after the domestic...
BEIJING - China criticised on Wednesday the U.S. "politicization" of efforts to trace the origin of the coronavirus, demanding a U.S. military laboratory...
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Wednesday reported 141 deaths from COVID-19, one of its highest tallies since May. According to Pakistan’s National Command and...
Dhaka: Bangladeshi garment worker Nurunnahar Begum never imagined winning a leadership role at the Dhaka clothing factory where she first began as a...
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will expand a state of emergency to eight more areas and cover about 70% of the population as...
SINGAPORE/HANOI: While the rapid spread of the Delta variant and low vaccinations have caught much of Asia off-guard, no country shows more vividly...
NEW DELHI: India will supply millions of additional COVID-19 vaccine doses to its states to try to inoculate all school teachers by early...
Hanoi: Vietnam is offering patients who have recovered from the coronavirus a monthly allowance if they agree to stay on at stretched hospitals...
SYDNEY: Sydney's COVID-19 infections hit a daily record on Wednesday, putting parts of the health system under pressure, officials said, calling for vaccinations...
WELLINGTON: New Zealand recorded 62 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, taking the total number of infections in the latest outbreak to 210...
