Passengers wear face masks as they arrive at the departures terminal at Sydney Domestic Airport in Sydney, Australia Nov 5, 2021. Flights between New South Wales and Victoria have resumed without any COVID-19 restrictions, as the border between the two states reopens. (BIANCA DE MARCHI / AAP IMAGE VIA AP) JERUSALEM / KUWAIT CITY / MELBOURNE […]
Restaurants are open for takeaway in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Aug 11, 2021. (SAMSUL SAID/BLOOMBERG) ANKARA / DHAKA / KUALA LUMPUR / KYIV / SEOUL / ULAN BATOR / WELLINGTON / YANGON – Singapore and Malaysia will launch a quarantine-free travel lane at their land border crossing next week, one of the world's busiest, for […]
This file photo taken on May 19, 2021 shows people at Merlion Park in the central business district of Singapore. (LAURYN ISHAK / BLOOMBERG) Singapore expects gross domestic product to expand 3 percent to 5 percent next year, a slower pace than this year as its rebound from the worst of the pandemic steadies. The […]
Gan Kim Yong, Singapore's trade minister, speaks during the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, on Nov 17, 2021. (PHOTO / BLOOMBERG) NEW DELHI / ISTANBUL / ANKARA / TEHRAN / JAKARTA / HANOI / MANILA / NEW DELHI / TOKYO – Singapore officials still need “a few more days” before they can decide whether to relax strict virus curbs […]
A medical worker prepares a vial of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at Clalit Health Service's center in the Cinema City complex in Jerusalem, Sept 22, 2021. (Maya Alleruzzo / ap) HANOI / KUALA LUMPUR / NEW DELHI / JAKARTA / ANKARA / YANGON / SEOUL / COLOMBO / WELLINGTON / SYDNEY / VIENTIANE / JERUSALEM – The effectiveness of the […]
People wearing face masks walk near an electronic tower showing the COVID-19 vaccination rates along a street in Seoul, South Korea on Nov 1, 2021. (LEE JIN-MAN / AP) WELLINGTON / MANILA / COLOMBO / JERUSALEM / TOKYO / JAKARTA / HANOI / ANKARA / DHAKA / NEW DELHI / ULAN BATOR / ISLAMABAD – South Korea plans to cut to four […]
Guides hold notices about precautions against the coronavirus as people wait to watch the 2021 World K-Pop Concert at the KINTEX convention center in Goyang, South Korea on Nov 14, 2021. (AHN YOUNG-HOON / AP) NEW DELHI / YANGON / TOKYO / TEHRAN / ANKARA / WELLINGTON / RAMALLAH / SEOUL / MANILA / ULAN BATOR / CANBERRA – South […]
This handout picture taken and released by the Miyazaki prefecture government on December 29, 2014 shows health officers disinfecting a poultry farm in Miyazaki, on Japan's southern island of Kyushu. (AFP PHOTO / MIYAZAKI PREFECTURAL GOVERNMENT) TOKYO – Japan has confirmed the highly pathogenic bird flu subtype H5N8 was detected at a poultry farm in […]
Tourists, mostly domestic, take a boat tour through the Thu Bon river on Apr 24, 2021 in Hoi An, Vietnam. (LINH PHAM / GETTY IMAGES VIA BLOOMBERG) JERUSALEM / HANOI / JAKARTA / KATHMANDU / YANGON / SINGAPORE / DAMASCUS / TEHRAN / SUVA / VIENTIANE / WELLINGTON / KUALA LUMPUR / SYDNEY – Vietnam is welcoming foreign tourists this month for […]
A health worker inoculates a woman with a dose of the Covaxin vaccine against the coronavirus at a health center in New Delhi on Oct 21, 2021. (PRAKASH SINGH / AFP) SYDNEY / ANKARA / YEREVAN / SINGAPORE / TEHRAN / YANGON / SUVA / TOKYO / KUALA LUMPUR / NEW DELHI / VIENTIANE / BANGKOK / SEOUL / ULAN BATOR / […]
A health worker (left) wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) collects a swab sample from a man for Covid-19 coronavirus testing in Hanoi on August 20, 2021. (NHAC NGUYEN / AFP) SYDNEY / TEHRAN / JERUSALEM / TOKYO / BEIRUT / KUALA LUMPUR / AUCKLAND / MANILA / SINGAPORE / HANOI / KATHMANDU – Vietnam reported […]
Health officials investigate a chicken farm in Sekikawa village, Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, after a highly contagious avian flu strain in poultry was detected, Nov 29, 2016. (YUKIE NISHIZAWA / KYODO NEWS VIA AP) TOKYO – Japan has detected its first outbreak of bird flu for the 2021 winter season, with confirmation of a case […]
People wearing protective masks walk around the famed Shibuya scramble crossing in a shopping and entertainment district on Oct 25, 2021 in Tokyo. (KIICHIRO SATO / AP) SINGAPORE / JERUSALEM / HANOI / JAKARTA / BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / YANGON / ULAN BATOR / NEW DELHI / MANILA / KUALA LUMPUR – Merck & Co Inc and partner Ridgeback […]
A COVID-19 patient is tended by a nurse at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 125 km south of the capital Tehran, Iran on Sept 15, 2021. (VAHID SALEMI / AP) WELLINGTON / SYDNEY / JERUSALEM / SINGAPORE / YANGON / ANKARA / TEHRAN / JAKARTA / COLOMBO / HANOI / VIENTIANE / PHNOM PENH / […]
A Pakistani health worker administers polio vaccine drops to Afghan refugee children during a polio vaccination campaign in Lahore on Jun 19, 2019. (ARIF ALI / AFP) KABUL – Afghanistan Public Health Ministry launched a nationwide anti-polio campaign on Monday to eliminate the crippling disease from among children in the war-torn country. Backed by the […]
A man dressed in a Spiderman costume sells coffee on a back street in Kuala Lumpur on Oct 19, 2021. (MOHD RASFAN / AFP) SINGAPORE / SYDNEY / NEW DELHI / KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia reported another 4,701 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Saturday, bringing the national total to 2,501,966, according to the health […]
People wearing protective masks walk around the famed Shibuya scramble crossing in a shopping and entertainment district on Oct 25, 2021 in Tokyo. (KIICHIRO SATO / AP) HANOI / BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / JAKARTA / YANGON / SINGAPORE / TEHRAN / ANKARA / JERUSALEM / AMMAN / KATHMANDU / KUALA LUMPUR / WELLINGTON / NEW DELHI / TOKYO / SYDNEY / ULAN BATOR / […]
A health worker prepares a jab of the Covaxin vaccine against COVID-19 at a primary health centre in Hyderabad, India, on May 25, 2021. (NOAH SEELAM / AFP) ISTANBUL / SINGAPORE / TEHRAN / ANKARA / WELLINGTON / KUALA LUMPUR / SEOUL / VIENTIANE / MANILA / BISHKEK / ULAN BATOR – The World Health Organization on Wednesday said it had […]
A health worker injects a syringe with a vial of the Phase 3 Novavax coronavirus vaccine for use in the trial at St. George's University hospital in London, Oct 7, 2020. (ALASTAIR GRANT / AP) JAKARTA / YANGON / SINGAPORE / HANOI / ANKARA / TEHRAN / BANGKOK / WELLINGTON / SEOUL / DUBAI / KUALA LUMPUR / NEW DELHI / […]
People wait to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in the Seodaemun district of Seoul, South Korea, Jul 14, 2021. (SEONGJOON / BLOOMBERG) AUSTRALIA/ CAMBODIA/ INDIA/ ISRAEL/ LAOS/ MALAYSIA/ PHILIPPINE/ MYANMAR/ SINGAPORE/ SOUTH KOREA – As many as 97 percent of the residents of Indian capital Delhi have antibodies against COVID-19 because of […]