BUDAPEST: Hungary, which last week became the first European Union member to buy Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, on Friday became the bloc's first...
BUDAPEST: Hungary, which last week became the first European Union member to buy Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, on Friday became the bloc's first...
MADRID: Spanish airport operator Aena will lease out areas for COVID-19 testing clinics in 15 airports' departure lounges, including in Madrid and Barcelona,...
MILAN: U.S. pharmaceutical company Moderna will deliver 20% fewer vaccine doses to Italy than promised in the week starting on Feb. 7, Italy's...
NAIROBI: Kenya said on Friday it was seeking an extra 11 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, on top of 24 million already ordered,...
HANOI: Vietnam's health minister said on Friday a new COVID-19 outbreak was "basically under control" in the areas most affected, as cases spread...
MANILA: The Philippines extended on Friday partial COVID-19 restrictions in the capital Manila until the end of February in a bid to slow...
ZURICH: Swiss drugmaker Novartis has signed an initial agreement to provide manufacturing capacity for Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, a move aimed at...
BANGKOK: Thailand's plan to produce the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine locally is on track to be ready to begin mass inoculations in June, with...
KYIV - Ukraine's parliament on Friday approved a bill intended to speed up the approval of COVID-19 vaccines, which also bans the approval...
Singapore - United States President Joe Biden's new administration may hold meetings with Chinese counterparts at a World Economic Forum meeting in Singapore...
NEW DELHI - Clashes broke out on Friday between protesting Indian farmers and a group of men shouting anti-farmer and pro-police slogans, and...
BEIJING/LONDON - China said on Friday that it would not recognise the British National Overseas (BNO) passport as a valid travel document from...
WUHAN, China - A World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of COVID-19 on Friday visited a hospital in the Chinese...
BUCHAREST - A fire killed four patients at a COVID-19 hospital in the Romanian capital Bucharest early on Friday and 102 others were...
NEW DELHI - The Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's biggest vaccine maker, has applied to local authorities to conduct a small...
MELBOURNE - Australia may resume its travel bubble with New Zealand in coming days, its health minister said on Friday, as the state...
New Zealand is mulling tighter restrictions on international arrivals after three people tested positive for Covid-19 despite completing mandatory quarantine without showing any...
SEOUL - South Korea has delayed until Sunday any easing of social distancing measures because outbreaks involving mission schools are threatening to undermine...
