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Reuters 2020-04-14 11:53:32
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday extended a nationwide lockdown until May 3 as the number of coronavirus cases crossed 10,000 despite a three-week shutdown. Modi, in an address on natio...
Reuters 2020-04-14 11:27:23
Eight people were killed by shelling in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on Monday, two local officials and a resident said, but the army said it had no information about such an incident and rejected ac...
Xinhua 2020-04-13 18:38:43
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will on Tuesday in Beijing attend a special meeting of leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus China, Japan and the Republic of Korea on respondin...
-- 2020-04-13 18:31:29
Wet markets in many provinces and regions across China have been reopened in succession as cities in Hubei Province get released from lockdown. Restored fresh markets have to meet strict measurements...
-- 2020-04-13 16:52:04
India has invited healthcare professionals from Saarc countries to join a five-day online training course on prevention and management of COVID-19 pandemic. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (A...
-- 2020-04-13 16:40:49
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday tripled the size of its response to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic to $20 billion and approved measures to streamline its operations for q...
-- 2020-04-13 16:04:51
South Korea plans to send 600,000 coronavirus testing kits to the United States on Tuesday in the first such shipment following a request from US President Donald Trump, a Seoul official told Reuters...
Reuters 2020-04-13 13:58:40
A Vietnamese entrepreneur in Ho Chi Minh City has invented a 24/7 automatic dispensing machine providing free rice for people out of work following an ongoing nationwide lockdown to stem the spread of...
-- 2020-04-13 10:42:51
A former Israeli chief rabbi has died after contracting the coronavirus, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday, in what is the country’s highest-profile death from the pandemic. Eliy...
REUTERS 2020-04-13 10:04:26
China reported the highest number of new daily coronavirus cases in nearly six weeks, driven by a rise in infected travellers arriving from overseas and underscoring challenges Beijing faces in preven...
-- 2020-04-12 17:38:01
China's Wuhan will strengthen medical treatment for severely ill and elderly COVID-19 patients, the latest signal from the city hard hit by the novel coronavirus but now in a steady recovery, reports...
-- 2020-04-12 09:20:19
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman approved an extension of the kingdom’s curfew until further notice due to the rate at which the coronavirus is currently spreading, the state news agency (SPA) r...
Reuters 2020-04-12 08:59:47
Mainland China reported 99 new coronavirus infections on April 11, more than doubling from the previous day to reach a one-month high, as the number of single-day imported cases hit a record, official...
AP 2020-04-11 18:58:52
Iran began reopening government offices Saturday after a brief nationwide lockdown to help contain the worst coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East, which has killed more than 4,300 people in the cou...
Global Times 2020-04-11 17:16:09
Reflecting on the past two months, people in Wuhan, whose lives have been upended by a 76-day city lockdown to contain the coronavirus, believe simple words are far from enough to express their mixed...
-- 2020-04-11 17:01:34
The World Health Organization (WHO) is looking into reports of some COVID-19 patients testing positive again after initially testing negative for the disease while being considered for discharge. Sou...
-- 2020-04-11 16:00:06
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold talks on Saturday with states to decide whether to extend its own stringent restrictions beyond next week. India’s 21-day lockdown ends on Tuesday...
REUTERS 2020-04-11 12:57:01
China reported on Saturday a rise in new coronavirus cases, as authorities try to head off a second wave of infections, particularly from imported and asymptomatic cases, as curbs on cities and travel...
REUTERS 2020-04-11 11:41:14
Vietnam is challenging China’s dominance of coronavirus diplomacy with the donation of medical supplies to Europe and Southeast Asia and even winning plaudits from U.S. President Donald Trump fo...
-- 2020-04-11 09:27:28
The number of deaths linked to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) reached 100,000 on Friday, as the tally of cases passed 1.6 million, according to a Reuters tally. The first death came in the centra...
-- 2020-04-10 21:25:18
Volunteers distribute face masks to students of Taiyuan University of Technology at the entrance of the school in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province on April 10, 2020. The first batch of graduati...
Xinhua 2020-04-10 19:37:50
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for tighter supervision of workplace safety to effectively safeguard the safety of people's lives and property. As the country is resuming work and production,...
Reuters 2020-04-10 18:44:32
Tens of millions of Indians stand to see few benefits from a coronavirus relief package worth $22.6 billion, economists and food rights activists say, a scenario that spells catastrophe for Karan Kuma...
-- 2020-04-10 17:48:49
After managing to keep on top of the first wave of coronavirus outbreaks, Singapore is grappling with an alarming rise in infections among migrant workers housed in crowded dormitories. Such cases no...
UNB 2020-04-10 17:38:31
Gender and social inequalities that underpinned societies in Asia and the Pacific before COVID-19 are now exacerbated, making bad situations for women and girls even worse, warns a new report by UN Wo...
Reuters 2020-04-10 11:00:23
Early voting in South Korea’s parliamentary election kicked off on Friday, with coronavirus patients casting ballots at designated stations and candidates adopting new ways of campaigning to lim...
Reuters 2020-04-10 10:35:35
The South Korean city of Daegu, which endured the first large coronavirus outbreak outside of China, on Friday reported zero new cases for the first time since late February, as new infections across...
-- 2020-04-09 17:04:58
China is capable of navigating its economy amid the COVID-19 fallout, and opportunities for the world's largest developing economy are promising in the long run despite virus-prompted challenges, econ...
-- 2020-04-09 16:52:49
China has urged intensified detection and prompt response to people infected with the novel coronavirus but showing no symptoms, according to a circular issued by the Joint Prevention and Control Mech...
REUTERS 2020-04-09 11:31:21
India is considering plans to seal off coronavirus hotspots in Delhi, Mumbai and parts of the south while easing restrictions elsewhere as a way out of a three-week lockdown that has caused deep econo...
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