Top officials, including leader Kim Jong Un, held a crisis politburo meeting on Thursday to discuss the outbreak and announced they would i...

As severe, regular lockdowns stoke public anger and hit the Chinese economy, China's top leader Xi Jinping has issued the harshest warning ...

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...

Australia has been pursuing a staggered border reopening since late last year allowing skilled migrants, international students and backpac...

The measures have confined tens of millions of people to their homes in several Chinese cities and contributed to a suspension of connectin...

China used lockdowns, contact tracing and quarantines to halt the spread of the coronavirus nearly two years ago after its emergence in Wuh...

People had said earlier that there was herd immunity in India in February 2021. And then Delta came. This is where so many people have been...

Authorities in Anyang announced the lockdown late on Monday, issuing a notice ordering residents not to leave their homes or drive cars on ...

The restaurateurs have said in the letter that ad hoc state-level restrictions are severely disrupting both operations and deliveries.

Omicron infections are multiplying across Europe, the United States and Asia, including in Japan, where a single cluster at a military base...

With central banks of developed economies, mainly the US Federal Reserve, pledging to withdraw liquidity sooner in the face of quickening i...

The total number of confirmed Omicron cases in the UK stands at 37,101, taking the overall COVID-19 infections tally to 82,886 on Sunday. A...

The Financial Times reported that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been presented with a number of options under a so-called Plan C...

The NBFCs and HFCs may again reduce their disbursements the way one saw during the previous periods of lockdowns. The securitisation volume...

With the delta variant of COVID-19 pushing up cases in Europe and growing fears over the omicron variant, governments around the world are ...

Many in India will call for stringent lockdowns, including a shutdown of international air traffic, to check the virus. This would be a mis...

The new Omicron coronavirus variant, first discovered in South Africa and announced in recent days, has now been detected in a growing numb...