MANILA: The Philippines extended on Friday partial COVID-19 restrictions in the capital Manila until the end of February in a bid to slow...
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...
MEXICO CITY - Mexico on Thursday surpassed India in confirmed COVID-19 deaths, giving the Latin American country the third-highest toll worldwide, according to...
State health officials in South Carolina on Thursday said they found two cases of COVID-19 linked to a more transmissible coronavirus variant first...
WUHAN, China: A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic will meet Chinese scientists on Friday and plans to...
SANTIAGO: Chile received a first shipment of almost two million doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac on Thursday and plans...
GULMARG, India: Tourists in Kashmir's Gulmarg ski resort have a new place to chill out - an igloo cafe that serves hot food...