Hong Kong, March 19 (ANI): Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced that the country will exclude the large supermarkets and pharmacy chains, as well as other businesses from the next round of government wage subsidies, who remain "unaffected" from the fifth-wave of Covid-19 outbreak.
Beijing [China], March 19 (ANI): Witnessing a surge in COVID-19 cases, China on Friday reported 2,157 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said on Saturday.
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], March 18 (ANI): Tamil Nadu logged 61 new COVID-19 cases and zero deaths in the last 24 hours, informed the state health department on Friday.
Guwahati (Assam) [India], March 18 (ANI): Assam reported four new COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours, taking the active caseload in the state to 18, according to an official bulletin on Friday.
Yangon [Myanmar], March 18 (ANI/Xinhua): Myanmar confirmed its first batch of 31 cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant's BA.2 sub-lineage on Friday, the Ministry of Health said.
New Delhi [India], March 18 (ANI): The national capital reported 140 fresh COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours with a positivity rate of 0.43 per cent, the Delhi Health Department informed on Friday.
Manila [Philippines], March 18 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 545 new COVID-19 infections on Friday, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 3,673,201.
New Delhi [India], March 18 (ANI): With the resurgence of COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia and some European countries, the Centre has advised States and Union Territories to continue focusing on the five-fold strategy that is test-track-treat-vaccination and adherence to COVID appropriate b
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], March 18 (ANI): AIADMK MLAs staged a walkout on the first of the Budget session on Friday alleging that the Tamil Nadu government is registering false cases against the Opposition leaders.
New Delhi [India], March 18 (ANI): India continues to report a decline in COVID-19 cases with 2,528 fresh infections being recorded in the last 24 hours.
Seoul [South Korea], March 18 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea reported 407,017 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Thursday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 8,657,609, the health authorities said Friday.