Tag Archives: COVID-19

NEW DELHI – Coronavirus infections in the South Asian subregion surpassed the grim 15 million mark over the weekend, while India reported a record increase on Monday to overtake Brazil as the second country most affected by the pandemic in the world. India reported a record 168,912 Covid-19 infections overnight, …

WASHINGTON – Nations around the world have set new records for Covid-19 deaths and new coronavirus infections in recent weeks. Brazil this week became the third country in the world, after the United States and Peru, to report a 24-hour tally of Covid-19 deaths exceeding 4,000. India peaked at nearly …

RIYADH – Saudi authorities said on Monday that only people immune to Covid-19 will be allowed to perform the Umrah pilgrimage around the year from the start of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting for Muslims. The Saudi Hajj and Umrah ministry said in a statement that three categories of …

KABUL – The Ministry of Public Health on Monday reported 62 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 2,035 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The ministry also reported 4 deaths and 17 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period. The new cases were reported in provinces of Kabul …

BEIJING – Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, has warned the United States not to take a superior stance and assume that it has the final say in world affairs. Wang said China would not accept Washington’s list of unilateral requests for negotiations with Beijing. “The door to dialogue with China …

NEW DELHI – India on Monday reported its biggest daily increase in coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, with the country crossing 100,000 infections for the first time. There have been 103,558 new cases in the past 24 hours, according to data released by the Department of Health. …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, said peace and stability in South Asia is linked to resolving all outstanding issues, primarily the long-simmering dispute in Kashmir, which has been a bone of contention between two rivals with nuclear weapons. Responding to the congratulatory message from his Indian counterpart, Narendra …

BEIJING – Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, welcomed his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, to the tourist town, Guilin, from March 22 to 23. Guilin, in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is known in China for its unparalleled scenery on the planet. The year 2021 marks the …

NEW DELHI – India has registered 56,211 new cases of the coronavirus, a slight drop from the country’s record figures in the past three days, data from the Indian Ministry of Health showed on Tuesday. The country’s death toll fell below 60,000 after three days, a Reuters tally showed, with …

GENEVA – A joint World Health Organization (WHO)-China study on the origins of Covid-19 indicates that transmission of the virus from bats to humans by another animal is the most likely scenario and that a laboratory leak is “extremely unlikely”, according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press …