Coronavirus: Australia could face longer lockdown after ‘reckless’ protests
Australia’s New South Wales logged its second-highest daily increase of the year in locally acquired Covid-19 cases on Sunday amid fears of a…
Tokyo Olympics: IOC insists on face masks on medal podiums, as 10 more Covid-19 cases reported
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Sunday that face masks are a “must” at Tokyo medal ceremonies, after swimmers were seen taking…
Coronavirus: as Malaysia’s contract doctors prepare for day-long strike, who is to blame for their woes?
As Malaysia’s health system heaves under the weight of a Covid-19 daily caseload that remains stubbornly high, thousands of young contract doctors like…
Singapore’s return to tighter rules raises the question: what does living with Covid-19 really mean?
After Singapore this week reimposed Covid-19 restrictions that were eased just days earlier amid raised hopes that the city state would adapt to…
Coronavirus: Singapore’s on-off rules on dining in leave chefs, restaurateurs vexed
Some of Singapore’s top chefs are fed up with the government’s on-again, off-again measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, which include a…
Coronavirus: Australians protest lockdowns; Vietnam tightens curbs in cities
Thousands of people on Saturday took to the streets of Sydney and other cities in Australia to protest Covid-19 lockdown restrictions amid another…
Thai volunteers step up as Covid-19 Delta cases send hospitals to ‘point of collapse’
Thanapon Songput, a worker at the non-profit Mirror Foundation, has been arranging to provide oxygen tanks for Covid-19 patients around Thailand’s capital in…
In Singapore, vaccinated people made up three-quarters of recent Covid-19 cases, but few fell ill
Vaccinated individuals accounted for three-quarters of Singapore’s Covid-19 infections in the last four weeks, but they were not falling seriously ill, government data…
Asia’s planned travel bubbles burst by Delta variant as some governments cling to ‘zero Covid’ strategy
Fresh lockdowns and restrictions in Asia brought on by the faster-spreading Delta coronavirus variant are making the region’s pursuit of travel bubbles look…
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