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Officials failed to disclose two positive COVID-19 cases amongst personnel traveling with Antony Blinken on Southeast Asia trip
The trip came to an early halt on Wednesday after one of the reporters in the press pool traveling …
Morgan Keith
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India is one of the few Asian countries where Covid-19 cases are rising
Source:Worldometer China placed Wu…
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China's claim of a Beijing office worker getting infected with Omicron through Canadian mail is 'extraordinary,' Canada's health minister says
The Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday said a Beijing resident had been in…
Matthew Loh
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Unnerving pics of Asia's largest slum where coronavirus claimed its first life — and can spread like wildfire
The deadly coronavirus, which already infected 1,965 people in India, has entered a dangerous ter…
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North Korea said it is suffering an explosive outbreak of 'fever' with 350,000 cases — just one day after announcing its first ever COVID case
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the massive outbreak showed a "grave sign of lapses in our ant…
Bill Bostock
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Thailand follows Denmark in suspending AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, pending an investigation into possible side effects
Thailand is the first Asian country to pause use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, following similar anno…
Grace Dean
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An uptick of coronavirus cases in Asia dashes some hopes that the pandemic could be slowing down
The novel coronavirus has swept the globe, infecting 200,000 and killing 8,000 in 155 countries and…
Paulina Cachero
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A 'runaway' to South Korea is suspected of bringing a coronavirus case back to North Korea after swimming across the border
North Korea reportedly had cases as far back as March, but Kim Jung Un hasn't acknowledged coronavi…
Rhea Mahbubani
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2 weeks out from the Olympics, China is back to using anal COVID-19 swab tests on some Beijing residents to try to detect Omicron cases
27 people were given anal COVID-19 swabs in Beijing this week in a procedure that involves insertin…
Cheryl Teh
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3 Chinese think tanks blasted the US coronavirus response, after Bloomberg ranked the country top in its COVID Resilience Index in June
The "America Ranked First?!': The Truth about America's fight against Covid-19" also called the US …
Vanessa Gu
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Video shows thousands of Indonesians storming vaccination center amid growing fears of COVID-19's Delta variant
Indonesia recently became a new coronavirus hotspot as the country struggles to get people vaccinat…
Sophia Ankel
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Sen. Marco Rubio mocked Defense Sec. Austin for masking up in the Philippines, where masks are required and COVID-19 is surging
Rubio, whose home state of Florida is also facing a COVID-19 surge, accused Lloyd Austin of "embarr…
Kelsey Vlamis
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2 weeks out from the Olympics, Beijing has locked down an office building with workers still inside and intensified restrictions after one Omicron case was detected
While the Chinese capital hasn't gone into full lockdown, all inbound travelers will be required to…
Cheryl Teh
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China is swinging into panic mode ahead of the Winter Olympics, locking down a city of 200,000 people over one COVID-19 case
China's COVID-zero approach has led it to impose harsh travel curbs, including a swift lockdown on …
Cheryl Teh
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Global stocks ease after Chinese data paints a mixed picture of recovery and inflation concerns weigh heavily
Investors are expected to focus on Federal Reserve speakers in the coming week as they react to US …
Shalini Nagarajan
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3 people in India repainted fire extinguishers to look like oxygen cylinders and sold them to families of COVID-19 patients, police say
The accused scammers sold "many" of the fire extinguishers to family members of COVID-19 patients f…
Katie Warren
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An elderly Indian woman whose family believed she had died from COVID-19 was moments from being cremated when she opened her eyes and began crying
The 76-year-old woman shocked her family when she woke up. They believed she had died outside a hos…
Sophia Ankel
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People in India are smearing cow dung over their bodies to ward off COVID-19 as second wave crisis worsens
Doctors in India have urged people not to smear themselves with cow dung, saying it risks spreading…
Sophia Ankel
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North Korea did not respond to Biden's offer to send over COVID-19 vaccines as the hermit country deals with a surge of cases
"We've offered vaccines, not only to North Korea but to China as well, and we're prepared to do tha…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Lab workers in Indonesia have been accused of reusing nasal COVID-19 swabs in as many as 20,000 tests
The workers are accused of using new swabs to test someone, then washing, repackaging, and using th…