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SYDNEY: Australian authorities reinstated a night curfew and extended Covid-19 lockdown measures in Melbourne for another two weeks to contain an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta coronavirus variant. The current lockdown was due…

TEHRAN: Iran on Sunday reported over 600 daily Covid deaths for the first time, ahead of tightened curbs to contain the spread of the virus. The country also registered 36,736 new infections in 24 hours, taking the total since the…

SYDNEY: New South Wales reported 415 new locally acquired cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, down from the previous day's record 466, as Australia's most populous state entered a snap lockdown to control the spread of the Delta variant in…

SYDNEY: Australia's biggest city announced tighter Covid restrictions including heavier fines and tighter policing on Saturday as authorities battled to contain a Delta outbreak and said they were seeing the "most concerning day of the…

BEIJING: China's drug regulator has approved the country's first mixed-vaccine trial, a company involved in the study said, as the rapid spread of the Delta variant raises concern about the efficacy of domestically produced jabs. The…

MOSCOW: Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 is 83% effective against the Delta variant of novel coronavirus, lower than previously thought, health minister Mikhail Murashko said on Wednesday. The vaccine's developers had said in…

BEIJING: China is keeping its guard up as its latest surge of Covid-19 cases entered its fourth week, with calls from officials to close containment loopholes unlikely to see cities easing strict virus control measures. China reported 83…

KUTUPALONG: Bangladesh on Tuesday began vaccinating Rohingya refugees living in congested camps as the impoverished South Asian nation battles a record surge in coronavirus cases, officials said. Health officials say 2,600 Covid-19 cases…

BEIJING: China reported 143 new cases of Covid-19 on the mainland for Aug. 9, up from 125 cases a day earlier, the health authority said on Tuesday. China's latest clusters are mainly driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant,…

BEIJING: Authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Sunday said they had completed citywide testing of more than 11 million people for Covid-19 after a resurgence of cases more than a year after the coronavirus first emerged…