A health worker wearing protective clothing conducts a swab test on a boy at a testing center for the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Hanoi on Aug 8, 2020. (NHAC NGUYEN / AFP) SYDNEY / JAKARTA / WELLINGTON / KUALA LUMPUR -Vietnam's Ministry of Health has called for speeding up COVID-19 vaccination for children aged five […]
Passengers wait in line before moving onto their temporary housing for quarantine as they come out of an arrival gate for international flights at the Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, on Dec 2, 2021. (HIRO KOMAE / FILE / AP) SEOUL / HANOI / SINGAPORE / JERUSALEM / TOKYO / WELLINGTON / CANBERRA / MANILA – […]
Africa, May 17, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – As the pursuit for a robust African cybersecurity landscape gathers momentum, Tradepass has taken the initiative to host the 4th edition CyFrica at The Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, Kenya on 28-29 June 2022. To ensure the summit has the right guidance and […]
South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol speaks on the government's supplementary revised budget bill at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea on May 16, 2022. (JEON HEON-KYUN / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) SEOUL – The Republic of Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Monday the country will spare no effort to help the Democratic People's […]
Health workers give a first dose of COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine to a woman, part of the 65 years and older tier, at a school being used as a vaccination site in Yangon on Feb 5, 2021. (STR / AFP) BAKU / SINGAPORE / HANOI / PYONGYANG / NEW DELHI / WELLINGTON / SEOUL / MUMBAI / SYDNEY […]
People return to shopping at Newmarket in Auckland, New Zealand as some COVID-19 restrictions were eased on Nov 10, 2021. (ALEX BURTON / NEW ZEALAND HERALD VIA AP) ISLAMABAD / SINGAPORE / HANOI / KUALA LUMPUR / SEOUL / WELLINGTON – New Zealand has reported 1,001,898 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the […]
Staff check a client at a drive-through COVID-19 testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on Jan 8, 2022. (MARK BAKER / AP) CANBERRA / JERUSALEM / YANGON / SEOUL / KUALA LUMPUR / WELLINGTON / NEW DELHI / SUVA – A leading expert has warned of a COVID-19 reinfection surge across Australia in the lead-up to winter. […]
A girl walks past a poster at a vaccination center in New Delhi on April 10, 2022. (MONEY Money SHARMA / AFP) NEW DELHI / SINGAPORE / HANOI / KUALA LUMPUR – India's federal government in its newly released the Civil Registration System (CRS) report 2020 has stated that the country recorded an increase of 6.2 percent […]
Staff check a client at a drive-through COVID-19 testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on Jan 8, 2022. (MARK BAKER / AP) NEW DELHI / SUVA / HANOI / SINGAPORE / SEOUL / SYDNEY / VIENTIANE / WELLINGTON – Three new sub variants of the highly transmissible Omicron strain of COVID-19 have been detected in Australia, […]
A woman walks past posters showing precautions against the COVID-19 coronavirus at a subway station in Seoul on April 15, 2022. (JUNG YEON-JE / AFP) SEOUL / MANILA / YANGON / WELLINGTON – South Korea has loosened rules requiring masks to be worn outdoors as COVID-19 cases drop, but many people are not taking them off yet […]
Staff check a client at a drive-through COVID-19 testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on Jan 8, 2022. (MARK BAKER / AP) SEOUL / YEREVAN / JAKARTA / KUALA LUMPUR / VIENTIANE / SUVA – Health authorities in Australia's state of New South Wales confirmed that the Omicron sub-lineage BA.4 was detected in the state. […]
A notice warning people not to gather in groups larger than five persons as part of restrictions to hald the spread of the coronavirus is displayed at Raffles Place financial business district in Singapore on Jan 4, 2022. (ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP) JERUSALEM / NEW DELHI / SINGAPORE / HANOI / WELLINGTON / NEW DELHI / SEOUL […]
People walk past shops in the Chinatown district in Singapore on April 14, 2022. (ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP) NEW DELHI / SINGAPORE / PHNOM PENH / SEOUL / WELLINGTON – Singapore will remove most remaining COVID-19 restrictions from April 26 and ease its entry requirements for travelers, its health ministry said on Friday, in response […]
Sri Lanka Army medic inoculates a woman with a booster shot of the Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in Colombo on Feb 1, 2022. (ISHARA S. KODIKARA / AFP) JERUSALEM / NEW DELHI / SINGAPORE / HANOI / PHNOM PENH / COLOMBO – The Sri Lankan Health Ministry on Thursday reversed a decision made earlier […]
This file photo shows vials with COVID-19 vaccine stickers attached and syringes with the logo of US biotech company Novavax, on Nov 17, 2020. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) JAKARTA / HANOI / SINGAPORE / YANGON / TOKYO / CANBERRA / VIENTIANE / SUVA – Japan's health ministry on Tuesday approved the use of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by US […]
A general view shows Shwedagon pagoda during the Thingyan water festival, marking the Buddhist new year, in Yangon on April 13, 2022. (STR / AFP) YANGON – Myanmar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rejected the human rights report issued by the United States Department of State, Myanmar's state-run media reported on Thursday. The Myanmar's Ministry […]
A man wearing a face mask to protect against COVID-19 walks around Wat Pho temple in Bangkok on Feb 24, 2022. (JACK TAYLOR / AFP) TOKYO / YANGON / JERUSALEM / SEOUL / KUALA LUMPUR / BANGKOK / JAKARTA / SUVA – Thailand's daily COVID-19 related deaths surpassed 100 for the third consecutive day, official data showed […]
People wait on the platform at a railway station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 31, 2022. (TANG LU / XINHUA) COLOMBO – Sri Lanka's Finance Ministry on Tuesday said the government has decided to suspend normal debt servicing of all affected debts for an interim period till it puts together an orderly and consensual restructuring […]
A health worker gives the first-time dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a woman, part of the 65 years and older tier, in a school being used as a vaccination site in Yangon, Myanmar on Feb 5, 2021. (STR / AFP) YANGON / SINGAPORE / BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / HANOI / WELLINGTON / SEOUL / NEW DELHI / ULAN […]
A woman carries an infant upon arrival from Jakarta after landing at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA 2), as Malaysia reopened its borders for travelers fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, in Sepang on April 1, 2022. (MOHD RASFAN / AFP) HANOI / BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / YANGON / SINGAPORE / SEOUL / WELLINGTON / KUALA LUMPUR / […]