COVID-19

Airlines and other travel groups have been pressing the Biden administration to lift the pre-departure COVID negative test requirements for international travelers

Officials have scrambled in recent weeks to contain cases spanning multiple regions

Analysts say April readings will likely be worse, with lockdowns in commercial centre Shanghai and elsewhere dragging on

Thai culture has long been steeped in astrology and forms of divination such as palm reading, tarot cards or numerology.

On Wednesday, the government announced its plan to expand the rollout of second COVID-19 booster shot for people over 60.

Some countries are still witnessing serious spikes in cases, which is putting pressure on hospitals

Tourists from visa-waiver countries including the United States, Britain and Singapore will now be able to visit from May 1

Opponents have urged the prime minister to resign over the issue.

The IMF recommended governments prioritize improving vaccine access to end the pandemic as soon as possible

The US State Department has asked non-emergency US government workers to leave the consulate in Shanghai as the city continues to see a surge in Covid-19 cases.

China's zero-Covid strategy is under extreme pressure as the virus whips across the country, with another outbreak in the northeast.

There are over 1,500 people in a city exhibition hall that has been converted into a quarantine centre.

His father tested positive for Covid-19 and is currently in isolation

The rate of deaths by suicide during the fifth Covid wave in Hong Kong reached a crisis level, according to a new study carried out by researchers at the University of Hong Kon

The club has found itself the subject of several serious accusations by a former Femeni player

Several exhibition halls in the megacity have been converted into mass quarantine centres, lining up row upon row of beds.

The UK hospitals have issued warnings asking people to be cautious as the cases of Norovirus infection have been increasing slowly when the country is already struggling to cope with Covid-19.

On Saturday, a member of the city's pandemic task force had vowed Shanghai would not shut down.

Criticism of the government's zero-Covid policy has met political backlash in the past.

In a bid to bolster waning immunity, some nations such as France have started rolling out fourth vaccine doses.

The 95-year old this week carried out two in-person meetings at Windsor Castle without her walking stick.

Isak Munda, a daily wage labourer from the Indian state of Odisha who was struggling to earn a living during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, has now become a YouTube star. He had uploaded his first video on the platform in March and now has almost 800,000 subscribers.

Scenes of closed neighbourhoods, panic buying and police cordons cast back to the early phase of the pandemic, which first emerged in China in late 2019.

The researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have found that pet hamsters were the most likely source of the latest Covid-19 outbreak in Hong Kong. The Delta variant of the coronavirus has been leading the current surge in the region.

Authorities also said Sunday that people cannot leave or enter Shanghai without a negative test taken in the past 48 hours.

As of Tuesday, Austria has recorded almost three million coronavirus cases and more than 15,000 deaths

A study conducted by scientists in the UK has revealed that Covid-19 infection changes the human brain. The findings which have now been published in the journal Nature are based on the health data of 401 people who have had Covid and 384 healthy persons.

Public celebrations are being planned for the queen's Platinum Jubilee in early June.

The scientists in Canada have found a highly mutated version of the coronavirus in white-tailed deer, one that may have also have infected a person in the southwestern Ontario region. It could become the first known case of deer to human transmission once confirmed.

Senior members of the royal family are due to visit eight of the 14 Commonwealth countries outside the UK