SEOUL: South Korea posted a sharp increase in its coronavirus cases on Wednesday as it struggled to tame its fourth wave of infections...
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...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan hit a target on Tuesday to vaccinate one million people a day against COVID-19, making strides in its inoculation campaign just...
BEIJING: China's Wuhan city will test its 12 million residents for the coronavirus after confirming its first domestic cases of the highly transmissible...
SEOUL: South Korea has detected its first two cases of the new Delta plus COVID-19 variant, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency...
Tokyo: The head of the Japan Medical Association called on Tuesday for a nationwide state of emergency to contain a surge in COVID-19...
Canberra: Australia's New South Wales, home to Sydney, said on Tuesday it could ease a COVID-19 lockdown that demands five million people stay...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's health minister said on Monday that most coronavirus-related deaths in the provinces of West Java and the capital Jakarta...
HONG KONG: Unvaccinated Hong Kong government employees, as well as education and health workers will soon have to pay for regular COVID-19 tests,...
