The Malaysian Health Ministry on Tuesday (Apr 28) announced the lowest number of COVID-19 positive cases recorded because the Movement Control Order (MCO) was implemented...

Mainland China reported 22 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday (Apr 28), up from six reported a day earlier, putting its total number of COVID-19 infections...

Mainland China reported six new COVID-19 cases on Monday (Arp 27), up from three reported a day earlier, putting its final number of COVID-19 infections...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday (Apr 28) most civil servants will steadily return to work from May 4, although the federal government...

As more Japanese restaurants turn off and people stay home through the country's state of emergency to fight the coronavirus, experts say rats may be...

A lot more than 2,200 Indonesians have died with acute symptoms of COVID-19 but weren't recorded as victims of the condition, a Reuters overview of...

Lip-reading suddenly got tricky when everyone covered their face through the COVID-19 pandemic, but Indonesian tailors have hit after the perfect solution - see-through masks.One...

Indonesia reported on Sunday (Apr 26) 275 new coronavirus cases, raising the full total to 8,882, data provided by health ministry official Achmad Yurianto showed.The...

The Chinese capital has banned "uncivilised" behaviour such as for example not covering the mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing, the city's government said...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is "alive and well", a top security adviser to the South's President Moon Jae-in said, downplaying rumours over Kim's...

Malaysia reported 38 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday (Apr 26), bringing the country's total to 5780.No deaths were reported overnight, health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah...

From Monday (Apr 27) Malaysians who would like to return from Singapore will need an entry permit from the Malaysian High Commission, and you will...

China is dropping a requirement a number of key virus maintenance systems get domestic regulatory approval before export, so long as they are approved in...

A particular train possibly owned by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was spotted this week at a resort town in the united states, according...

Malaysia reported 51 new COVID-19 infections and two deaths on Saturday (Apr 25).The full total number of recorded cases in the united states is currently...

China reported 11 new coronavirus cases on Apr 25, compared to 12 on the previous day, with no fatalities, according to official data published on...

India allowed shops in residential areas to reopen from on Saturday, greater than a month following the country went into lockdown to curb the spread...

China has dispatched a team to North Korea including medical authorities to advise on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to three persons familiar...

Philippine Health Ministry on Friday (Apr 24) reported that confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus have increased to more than 7,000.In a bulletin, the ministry...

A novel coronavirus vaccine has for the very first time "largely protected" monkeys from infection during an animal trial, data from a Chinese pharmaceutical giant...

The quantity of new COVID-19 cases in Malaysia continued to stay at double digits for the eighth consecutive day, with 88 new cases recorded on...

China will prosecute a Belizean citizen for his alleged involvement in providing funds to "meddle" in Hong Kong affairs, a newspaper backed by the ruling...

Jakarta's administration might extend wide-scale social limitations by four weeks as the quantity of Indonesia's COVID-19 circumstances approached 7,500 on Wednesday (Apr 22).Closures of non-necessary...

Fourteen more coronavirus infections have been verified on the Italian cruise liner Costa Atlantica docked for fixes in Japan, a local official explained on Thursday...

Eight very young children at a Tokyo treatment centre have tested great for the coronavirus after an employee member contracted the disease, its operator said...

Mesmerising aerial images confirmed a herd greater than 30 dugongs drifting serenely off the coast of a Thai island about Wednesday (Apr 22).Thailand's tourism industry...

China reported 10 new COVID-19 cases by the finish of Wednesday, straight down from 30 a working day earlier, even while concerns rose about the...

The operating hours for the Immigration Department and related agencies in Bangunan Sultan Iskandar at the Johor Causeway will be reduced to 12 hours a...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Wednesday (Apr 22) the replacement of several ministers was targeted at reviving the coronavirus-hit economy and was unrelated...

Malaysian health authorities on Tuesday (Apr 21) reported 57 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 5,482 cases as the daily upsurge in cases...

Mainland China reported on Wednesday (Apr 22) 30 new COVID-19 cases, 23 which were imported cases involving travellers from overseas, up from 11 a day...

Facebook has taken a US$5.7 billion stake in the Jio digital platforms business of India's richest man Mukesh Ambani, both sides said Wednesday (Apr 22),...

For days, Mawarni have been trying to apply for the government’s pre-employment card programme, which allows her to have a benefit worth 3.5 million rupiah...

China reported 11 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday (Apr 20), down from 12 a day earlier, with no new deaths. Of the full total, four...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had not been seriously ill, two South Korean government sources said on Tuesday (Apr 21), following reports he previously...

Hong Kong's government will extend restrictions aimed at tackling the coronavirus for another 2 weeks to preserve the city's success in keeping the amount of...

White House adviser Peter Navarro charged on Monday (Apr 20) that China may be withholding data about early coronavirus infections since it really wants to...

Thailand on Monday (Apr 20) reported 27 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the country's total to 2,792 cases, a senior health official said.Of the brand new...

Budget carrier Jetstar Asia will resume partial businesses to three key cities in Southeast Asia this week, with reduced onboard services and crew members decked...

Indonesia reported 327 new coronavirus cases on Sunday (Apr 19), taking the total number of infections to 6,575. Health ministry official Achmad Yurianto also reported 47...

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan in early stages Monday (Apr 20), based on the US Geological Survey, but no tsunami...

China reported 12 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Sunday (Apr 19), down from 16 a day earlier, without new deaths, the country's health authority said...

China reported 27 new coronavirus cases on Friday (Apr 17), up from 26 your day earlier, according to data published on Saturday.Of this figure, 17...

Malaysian health officials reported 54 new coronavirus cases on Saturday (Apr 18), the lowest daily increase because the government imposed curbs on movement and business...

South Korea extended its social distancing policy for another 15 days on Sunday (Apr 19) but offered some relief for churches and sporting fixtures, since...

Tens of thousands of people defied a nationwide coronavirus lockdown in Bangladesh on Saturday (Apr 18) to wait the funeral of a high Islamic preacher,...

The director of a maximum-security laboratory in China's coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan has rejected claims that maybe it's the source of the outbreak, calling...

Japan, alarmed by rising coronavirus deaths and the spectre of the collapse of the medical system, is scrambling to expand testing with drive-through facilities and...

China ordered on Saturday (Apr 18) that anyone in Wuhan working in certain service-related jobs must have a coronavirus test if they want to leave...

Hong Kong police arrested 14 activists in raids on Saturday (Apr 18) on charges of illegal assembly, in the biggest crackdown on the city's pro-democracy...

Close to 15,000 individuals have been held in Malaysia for violating movement curbs set up on Mar 18, criminal investigations department director Huzir Mohamed said...

 Asian monetary growth next season on the assumption that containment policies do well, but added the outlook was highly uncertain.Unlike the global financial meltdown triggered...

Malaysia on Wednesday (Apr 15) reported 85 new cases of coronavirus, the cheapest daily rise because the government imposed curbs to limit the virus' spread...

Malaysian athletes foresee a challenging go back to regular training after the movement control order (MCO), despite attempts to keep up fitness aware of customised...

China reported 46 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the mainland, exactly like a day earlier, in line with the country's health authority on...

Thailand reported 30 new coronavirus cases and a couple of deaths on Wednesday (Apr 15).Of the new cases, 19 patients were linked to previous cases,...

Temperature checks on voters, separate booths for those with fever, special polling stations for the quarantined: South Koreans headed to the polls on Wednesday (Apr...

Hair salons, barbers and optometrists in Malaysia will no longer be permitted to operate through the extension period of the movement control order (MCO), said...

Thailand reported 28 new coronavirus cases and two new deaths on Monday (Apr 13).Of the new cases, 18 are associated with previous cases, seven without...

In South Asia's most current techniques to curb the coronavirus pandemic, Bangladesh has prolonged its nationwide lockdown by 11 days while Indian Primary Minister Narendra...

North Korea needed more strict and thorough countermeasures to guarantee the safety of its citizens from the fast spreading coronavirus pandemic in a political bureau...

A new study examining air samples from hospital wards with COVID-19 patients has found the virus can travel up to 4m - twice the distance...

China is upgrading scrutiny of inbound foreigners and tightening border control following the quantity of single-moment imported coronavirus cases place a record, helping double the...

Liver patient Shahjahan's family feared the worst whenever a New Delhi consumer hospital informed her to leave because her bed was needed found in a...

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is defined to increase the world's biggest pandemic lockdown for 14 days, state ministers stated after talks Saturday (Apr 11)...

Practically 700 Singapore residents have already been evacuated from India, immediately after many made much time road journeys to attain the airports, Singapore's Ministry of...

South Korean officials about Friday (Apr 10) reported 91 patients thought cleared of COVID-19 had tested positive again.Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the Korea Centers for...

Soldiers and police reach the roads of Indonesia's capital Jakarta Friday (Apr 10) to enforce it is toughest social-distancing guidelines yet as COVID-19 attacks surge...

Tens of millions of Indians stand to see few advantages from a COVID-19 relief package well worth US$22.6 billion, economists and food rights activists claim,...

China on Saturday (Apr 11) reported a growth in new coronavirus situations, as authorities make an effort to head off a second wave of COVID-19,...

A famous Hong Kong snake meat restaurant, She Wong Yee, will shut its doors this month after a lot more than three decades running a...

The impact of COVID-19 on Hong Kong's tourism sector is unprecedented and metropolis can hope to get started on seeing things returning to normal by...

Hundreds of millions of men and women in India, including in its two most significant cities, were ordered on Wednesday (Apr 8) to wear face...

Thailand reported 54 new COVID-19 cases and 2 more deaths on Thursday (Apr 9), including a 74-year-old French national.An 82-year-old Thai man also died, said...

North Korea, one of only a small number of countries not to have reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, has said that it continues testing and...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday (Apr 7) declared a state of emergency to fight new COVID-19 infections in major population centres, and unveiled...

Authorities in the Indonesian capital Jakarta will impose large-scale social restrictions including closures of schools and workplaces to curb the spread of the brand new...

Mr Haekal Anshori, a worker in a tiny T-shirt printing shop, has been trying to contact his employer for days.He was looking to get an...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday (Apr 7) approved the extension of lockdown and home quarantine measures covering more than half of the population, a...

Indian authorities are facing developing complaints from doctors who say their criticism of the response to the coronavirus outbreak and too little protective gear has...

No COVID-19 deaths were reported in China on Tuesday (Apr 7), the 1st time since it started publishing daily statistics in January, the National Health...

Thailand reported 38 new coronavirus attacks and the loss of life of a 54-year-old person on Tuesday (Apr 7), a spokesman for a good government...

With just hours remaining on Tuesday (Apr 7) before Japan imposes a state of urgent on Tokyo and six other prefectures to contain the coronavirus,...

Sri Lanka extended the suggested quarantine period from fourteen days to four on Sunday (Apr 5) after a 34-year-old man who returned home from South...

Thailand reported 51 new coronavirus cases and three more deaths on Monday (Apr 6), according to a spokesman for the government's Center for COVID-19 Situation...

Mainland China reported 30 new coronavirus cases on Saturday (Apr 4), up from 19 a day earlier as the amount of cases involving travellers from...

Thailand reported 102 new COVID-19 cases and three more deaths, the country's public health ministry said on Sunday (Apr 5). The most recent numbers raised the...

About 130 of Hong Kong's frontline riot cops will be delivered to quarantine camp after two of their colleagues were confirmed to be infected with...

Police and soldiers wearing protective masks create hundreds of checkpoints across Thailand on Friday (Apr 3) night to enforce an indefinite nationwide curfew, banning most...

The Philippines' health ministry on Friday (Apr 3) reported 29 new coronavirus deaths, marking the single most significant daily upsurge in casualties.The latest figures brought...

 Malaysia reported 217 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday (Apr 3), bringing the full total number of individuals tested positive to 3,333.Health Ministry director-general Noor...

This will be the first time in Mr Tuen Kong Fook’s life that he'll not be honouring his family’s ancestors at their final resting place...

Several Malaysian states, including Kedah, Selangor, Terengganu and Melaka, have announced that Ramadan bazaars are going to be cancelled this year.Johor Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar has...

Japan's Fujifilm has begun clinical trials to test the potency of its anti-flu drug Avigan in treating patients with the brand new coronavirus, after reports...

Chinese health authorities started out on Wednesday (Apr 1) reporting on asymptomatic cases of the coronavirus within an attempt to allay public fears that persons...

Around 4,000 South Koreans working for the US military in their country were put on unpaid leave Wednesday (Apr 1) as Seoul and Washington bicker...

Japan remains on the brink of circumstances of emergency as the rate of new COVID-19 cases accelerates in the united states, its top government spokesman...

Thailand confirmed 120 new coronavirus cases and two more deaths on Wednesday (Apr 1), said a spokesman of the government's Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration.The...

Mainland China reported on Tuesday (Mar 31) a rise in new confirmed coronavirus cases, reversing four days of declines, due to an uptick in infections...

A Japanese naval destroyer and a Chinese vessel have collided in the ocean off Shanghai but there were no injuries, Japanese media reported early on...

South Korea said on Tuesday (Mar 31) it will open school classes online in a few days and reschedule its annual college entrance exams slated...

Indian health personnel caused outrage on Monday (Mar 30) by spraying a group of migrants with disinfectant, amid fears that a large scale movement of...

The coronavirus epidemic is "far from over" in the Asia-Pacific region, and the current measures to curb the spread of the virus are simply just...

China's central bank on Monday (Mar 30) cut an interest rate on loans to banks by the major margin found in five years and injected...

Thailand's public wellness ministry said on Mon (Mar 30) that two more persons have died from the new coronavirus, bringing the total quantity of deaths...

Mainland China reported a drop found in new coronavirus infections for a fourth time as imported conditions fell, even while authorities shut the borders to...

South Korea will make a crisis cash payment to many families and draft another supplementary budget the following month in a good bid to help...

The glowing yellow barricades snake through the roads of Wuhan, dividing up the epicentre of China's coronavirus outbreak into segments that can be quickly monitored...

Indonesia's capital Jakarta announced a two-week extension of its state of emergency following a nationwide surge in coronavirus cases, its governor said on Saturday.Anies Baswedan...

The ground-zero city of Wuhan is cautiously reopening after a two-month quarantine, however the birthplace of the global coronavirus pandemic is currently on protect from...

India said on Saturday (Mar 28) it was likely to turn some railway coaches into isolation wards for patients with coronavirus, as authorities scramble to...

South Korea reported 146 new coronavirus cases on Friday (Mar 27), the best number in weekly, its disease control agency said on Saturday, with the...

China's National Health Commission said on Saturday that 54 new coronavirus cases were reported on the mainland on Friday, all involving so-called imported cases. There...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Saturday the fight against the globally spreading coronavirus will be prolonged, while calling for heightened vigilance against the surge in...

Thailand reported 109 new coronavirus cases and one death, bringing it total to 1 1,245 infections and 6 deaths, the spokesman of the government's Center...

With India locked down over the coronavirus no way to make money, Dilipji Thakor faces a grim choice: Either walk home or die hungry.Thakor is...

Thailand barred entry in to the kingdom late on Wednesday (Mar 25), enacting sweeping emergency powers found in a bid to stem the neighborhood spread...

The Japanese government was getting ready to set up a particular headquarters on coronavirus as soon as Thursday (Mar 26) afternoon, a step that could...

Gunmen and suicide bombers raided a good Sikh religious complex found in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday (Mar 25), killing 25 persons before...

Indonesia has confirmed 105 new coronavirus cases, bringing the Southeast Asian country's total to 790, Wellbeing Ministry official Achmad Yurianto said on Wednesday (Mar 25).Three...

Mainland China reported another consecutive day of zero new local coronavirus attacks as the epicentre of the epidemic Hubei province opened its borders, but imported...

Myanmar - which announced two COVID-19 positive conditions on Monday (Mar 23) - currently has enough check kits to find suspected instances, says a World...

South Korea reported 100 new coronavirus conditions on Wednesday (Mar 25), bringing its total attacks to 9,137, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Avoidance...

China lifted tough limitations on the province at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday after a months-long lockdown as the country reported no...

India's 1.3 billion people will go under "total lockdown" from midnight on Tuesday (Mar 24) for three weeks to fight the spread COVID-19, Prime Minister...

Beijing's city government is further strengthening quarantine rules for people who arrive in China from overseas, as the Chinese capital seeks to minimise coronavirus-related risks,...

South Korea reported 76 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday (Mar 24), maintaining a downward trend in new infections which raised hopes that Asia's major outbreak...

Thailand reported two more deaths from the novel coronavirus on Tuesday (Mar 24) as its death toll rose to four, a health ministry official said.The...

The world's biggest gambling hub of Macau will ban entry from Wednesday (Mar 25) for visitors from mainland China, neighbouring Hong Kong and Taiwan who've...

China reported 78 new cases of the deadly coronavirus on Tuesday (Mar 24), with a large proportion earned from overseas as fears rise of another...

Indonesia's capital Jakarta shut cinemas and other public entertainment on Monday (Mar 23) in the beginning of a two-week emergency period to attempt to slow...

Mainland China on Monday (Mar 23) reported a drop in its daily tally of new coronavirus cases, reversing four straight days of increases, as the...

People in central China where the coronavirus was initially detected are allowed to get back to work and public transport is restarting, as some normality...

Malaysia on Sunday (Mar 22) reported another death, bringing the COVID-19 death toll in the united states to nine.Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah said the...

Indonesia is probably the biggest contributors to plastic pollution in the ocean. It became a dumping ground for the world’s plastic waste after China’s ban...

Malaysia on Sunday (Mar 22) reported 123 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the national total to at least one 1,306.  Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah also confirmed...

Thailand reported 35 new coronavirus circumstances on Wednesday (Mar 18), taking its total attacks to 212, a disease control official said.The southeast Asian nation has...

A 17-year-old dog found in Hong Kong, which have been cleared of the coronavirus after first suspicions of contamination were confirmed unfounded, has died two...

South Korea reported 93 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday (Mar 18), maintaining a downward craze in daily infections, but concerns about new outbreaks around little...

The World Health Company (WHO) has called on member states in the South-East Asia region to urgently take “aggressive measures” to combat COVID-19 because of...

Imported coronavirus cases on China outnumbered cases of location transmitting for the fifth right day as infected travellers passed through significant Chinese transportation hubs on...

Japan's health ministry said it has identified 15 clusters of coronavirus infections around the united states.The largest cluster was in the Osaka area, with more...

South Korea reported 74 new coronavirus infections on Monday (Mar 16), slightly less than a day ago, in line with the Korea Centers for Disease...

A Japanese man was sentenced to death on Monday (Mar 16) for killing 19 disabled people in a knife-wielding rampage in 2016.Satoshi Uematsu, 30, admitted...

Malaysia reported 41 new cases of the brand new coronavirus on Saturday (Mar 14), most associated with a religious event on the outskirts of Kuala...

Mr Lee Wan Hiong dipped a good wire sieve right into a boiling pot of water and fished a good bundle of egg noodles away.The...

South Korea on Sunday (Mar 15) reported 76 new coronavirus cases and three even more deaths, a fall found in new situations to double-digits for...

Thailand's public overall health ministry released detailed actions for travellers traveling to the country as it intensified initiatives to contain the COVID-19 outbreak, the Tourism...

The quantity of new coronavirus cases that found mainland China from overseas surpassed the quantity of locally transmitted new infections for the next time on...

Malaysia’s health officials have been working at any hour to conduct mass COVID-19 screenings at Masjid Jamek Sri Petaling, as medical ministry confirmed on Friday...