Australia, which is among the most heavily vaccinated countries against the coronavirus, has so far administered two vaccine doses to 95% o...

Australia is in the grip of a third Omicron wave driven by the highly transmissible new subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, with more than 300,000 ...

BA.5 is a sister variant of the Omicron strain that has been dominant worldwide since the end of 2021, and has already caused spikes in cas...

The region is reporting over 1 million new COVID-19 cases about every two days, according to a Reuters analysis. With more than half of the...

While a number of countries opened their skies after the scare over the Omicron-led Covid wave eased, those like Hong Kong, South Korea, Vi...

According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), India's domestic air passenger volume on a year-on-year basis -- measured ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said his government was waiving the A$630 ($453) visa application fee for any backpacker or student who arriv...

A study from the Imperial College London's COVID-19 response team estimated the risk of reinfection with Omicron to be 5.4 times higher tha...

A vaccine targeting Omicron will increase immunity to the variant on both an individual and population level.

Asian govts are carrying out widely diverging coronavirus policies, with strategies ranging from China’s pursuit of Covid Zero to Australia...

The figure stood at 300,042,439 cases at 15:45 GMT, including all the cases announced since the World Health Organization office in China f...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison insisted that limiting the spread of the virus comes down to personal responsibility. No national ...

The dollar was supported against safe-haven currencies such as the Japanese yen on Tuesday, hanging on to an overnight jump made with U.S. ...

Given the widespread exposure of Indians to Covid-19 virus and a reasonably-high vaccination rate, India will likely be less affected by th...

South African scientists identified a new version of the coronavirus that they say is behind a recent spike in COVID-19 infections in Gaute...

In its commentary titled 'Much to Learn About OmicronFast’, Moody’s Analytics said although the variant appears to spread ”remarkably quick...

Spot gold rose 0.1 per cent to $1,793.72 per ounce by 0201 GMT. U.S. gold futures advanced 0.4 per cent to $1,793.2.