New Delhi [India], April 24 (ANI): Witnessing a steady rise in the number of new COVID-19 infections, India recorded 2,593 new cases in the last 24 hours, with a daily positivity rate of 0.59 per cent.
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], April 24 (ANI/Xinhua): Malaysia reported 5,624 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Saturday, bringing the total tally to 4,427,067.
Beijing [China], April 24 (ANI): The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 1,566 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 1,401 were in Shanghai, according to the National Health Commission's report Sunday.
New Delhi [India], April 23 (ANI): University Grants Commission (UGC) chairman Jagadesh Kumar on Saturday cautioned Indian students to carefully choose educational institutions abroad including in Pakistan, China amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kathmandu [Nepal], April 23 (ANI): With less than three weeks left for local-level polls, the Election Commission of Nepal is intensifying its preparations amid the threat from COVID-19 that still looms over the Himalayan nation.
New Delhi [India], April 23 (ANI): Delhi has started providing free COVID-19 precautionary doses to beneficiaries in the age group of 18-59 at government vaccination centres.
Beijing [China], April 23 (ANI): Amid strict lockdown measures, breakdown of supply chains, food shortages and increasing COVID-19 cases, the residents of China's economic hub of Shanghai are venting online even as government censors try to control the flood of critical comments pouring in.
New Delhi [India], April 23 (ANI): The national capital logged 1,094 new COVID cases in the last 24 hours, the highest since February 10 this year, according to the health bulletin of the Delhi government on Saturday.
Hanoi [Vietnam], April 23 (ANI/Xinhua): Vietnam reported 10,365 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, down 795 from Friday, according to its Ministry of Health.
Male [Maldives], April 23 (ANI): Maldives and Sri Lanka-- two nations whose economies are heavily dependent on tourism-- suffered a big blow due to COVID-enforced regulations after the outbreak of the pandemic.
New Delhi [India], April 23 (ANI): After a gap of two years due to the COVID pandemic, the Haj yatra will begin this year as usual, announced the Saudi government.
Shanghai [China], April 23 (ANI): The COVID-19 death toll continues to rise in China's economic hub of Shanghai even as strict lockdown measures wreak havoc in the daily lives of ordinary people.