(CNA) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday (Oct 5) that the current soaring number of COVID-19 cases was about where government forecasts had predicted so the next weeks would be…

(BBC) - One in 10 people around the world may have contracted Covid-19, the World Health Organization said, at a special meeting of WHO leaders. A top official said the estimate meant "the vast…

(Bloomberg) - Singapore banks will extend debt relief for individuals and small-to-midsized businesses beyond the end of the year to support borrowers hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.…

(Reuters) - Doctors not involved in treating President Donald Trump for Covid-19 said the fact that he has been started on dexamethasone — a generic steroid widely used in other diseases to reduce…

(Reuters) - US President Donald Trump briefly left the military hospital where he is being treated for Covid-19 in a motorcade on Sunday to wave to supporters gathered outside, sparking criticism…

(Reuters) - Early in the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump put his faith in a toaster-sized machine that could spit out test results in a matter of minutes. In late March, Trump…

(Al Jazeera) - News of the infection of the most powerful man in the world with the most notorious disease has drawn instant reactions of shock, sympathy, undisguised glee and, of course, the…

(NST) - About 10 per cent of businesses in Thailand's tourism industry have closed with almost 540,000 workers laid-off due to the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Thailand's Tourism…

(CNN) - President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for coronavirus, the President announced early Friday morning, an extraordinary development coming months into a global…

(Nikkei) - Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Tuesday underlined Japan's willingness to contribute to global governance as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council as he made a case for…

(BBC) - Days after banning ads prematurely declaring victory in the presidential election, Facebook has now banned those questioning the US electoral process. Ads seeking to "delegitimise any…

(Reuters) - Britain suffered a record collapse in economic output in the second quarter of 2020 when Covid-19 lockdown measures were in force and people had few opportunities to spend, though the…

(Reuters) - Some 120 million rapid diagnostic tests for coronavirus will be made available to low- and middle-income countries at a maximum of $5 per unit, the World Health Organization said on…

(The Nation Thailand) - Thailand may be luckier than other countries as a study from Brazil has revealed that former dengue patients have a low chance of dying from Covid-19. Dr Manoon…

(Reuters) - Thailand will receive its first foreign vacationers when a flight from China arrives next week, marking the gradual restart of a vital tourism sector battered by coronavirus travel…

(Bloomberg) - China doesn’t care about its bottom 60%. The country seems to have bounced back from the Covid-19 slowdown. Exports are growing by double digits, and retail sales, which had been…

(FMT) - The global death toll from the new coronavirus, which emerged less than a year ago in China and has swept across the world, passed one million on Sunday. The pandemic has ravaged the…

(Reuters) - China's foreign ministry denied claims from an Australian think-tank that it had destroyed thousands of mosques in its western Xinjiang region, and said there are more than 24,000…

(Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged at the United Nations on Saturday that his country’s vaccine production capacity would be made available globally to fight the Covid-19…

(Reuters) - Britain could be moving too slowly to tackle the sharp rise in Covid-19 cases because of a lag between case numbers and deaths which means fatalities have remained relatively low, a…

(NST) - A businessman who spun his wealth from bottled water and vaccines has usurped tech tycoon Jack Ma as China's richest man, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index showed on Thursday. Nongfu…

(CNA) - The global death toll from COVID-19 could double to 2 million before a successful vaccine is widely used and could be even higher without concerted action to curb the pandemic, an official…

(The Sun Daily) - You might have missed it – what with the biggest recession since the 1930s and a pandemic going on – but there may be big, and bad, changes happening to a media landscape near…

(FMT) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday refused to clearly guarantee a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the upcoming US election in November to Joe Biden. “Well, we’re going to…

(NST) - Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was arrested on Thursday in relation to a protest at the height of the city's pro-democracy unrest last year, his lawyer said. The detention of the city's…

(FMT) - Indonesia is developing vast farm estates across the archipelago — an area 10 times the size of neighbouring Singapore — to counter the nation’s reliance on imported food, President Joko…

(CNA) - The first study to analyse the structure of the novel coronavirus from two waves of infection in a major city found that a more contagious strain dominates recent samples, researchers from…

(CNA) - Saudi Arabia will gradually resume the year-round umrah pilgrimage for Muslims from Oct 4, the interior ministry said on Tuesday (Sep 23), seven months after it was suspended because of…

(Reuters) - US President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday (Sep 22) that China must be held accountable for having "unleashed" COVID-19 on the world, prompting…