SINGAPORE: Singapore reported five locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Thursday, its highest number in nearly three months, and was seeking to verify two...
SINGAPORE: Singapore reported five locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Thursday, its highest number in nearly three months, and was seeking to verify two...
MANILA: A province of islands in the southern Philippines will seal itself off for an initial two weeks from Monday to keep out...
Shanghai: China has confirmed its first case of a new coronavirus variant that was recently detected in Britain, health officials said. The new...
Doha: In its social media platform, the Philippine Embassy in Qatar has shared an announcement made by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)...
TOKYO: New coronavirus infections in Tokyo hit a record high of more than 1,300 on Thursday raising fears of an explosion in cases,...
SYDNEY: Authorities restricted movement and tightened curbs on gatherings in Australia's biggest city on Wednesday, hoping to avoid a coronavirus "super spreader" event...
Hong Kong: The sale of property owned by the US consulate in Hong Kong failed to be completed as scheduled on Wednesday after...
TAIPEI: Taiwan has agreed to buy almost 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, including 10 million from AstraZeneca Plc, the government said on...
SINGAPORE: Singapore began vaccinating healthcare workers with Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, kicking off one of Asia's first inoculation programmes against a pandemic...
BEIJING: A COVID-19 vaccine developed by a Beijing firm linked to Sinopharm has a protection rate of 79.34% against the disease, the firm...
SEOUL - Moderna Inc said on Tuesday it was in discussions with the South Korean government to potentially provide 40 million or more...
BANGKOK: Thailand warned on Tuesday that more intensive measures might be necessary to halt its worst coronavirus outbreak yet and urged the public...
BEIJING: Beijing sealed off 10 areas of its northeastern Shunyi district on Tuesday, the first lockdown in the Chinese capital since the last...
Bhashan Char, Bangladesh: Four Bangladesh navy ships on Tuesday took the second and biggest group of Rohingya Muslims yet from crowded refugee camps...
JAKARTA: Indonesia is finalising deals to secure 50 million doses of coronavirus vaccines from drugmakers Pfizer and AstraZeneca, the new health minister said...
SEOUL: American troops stationed in South Korea received the first doses of coronavirus vaccine to be administered in the country on Tuesday, as...
MANILA: The Philippines will ban travellers from 19 countries and territories until mid-January as a measure to keep out a new variant of...
Bengaluru: India has found six people who returned from Britain in recent weeks infected with a more infectious strain of the coronavirus that...
