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@nytimesworld 2 years ago The EU “strongly encouraged” its 27 member nations to require a negative Covid-19 test for travelers to board flights from China to the region, amid a surge in coronavirus cases in the country and Beijing’s lifting of draconian travel restrictions nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 3 years ago A strong earthquake has shaken Sichuan Province, a region in southwestern China that has already faced a severe drought and a Covid lockdown in the past month. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 3 years ago As coronavirus cases surge across the Asia-Pacific region, countries that were once similarly stringent in their virus control measures are taking drastically divergent paths with the pandemic now in its third year. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 3 years ago Governments across Europe are beginning to tighten restrictions again amid the latest wave of new coronavirus cases, threatening the gains that the region has made against the pandemic. nyti.ms
@BBCWorld 3 years ago Europe region faces 700,000 more Covid deaths by March, says World Health Organization bbc.in
@nytimesworld 3 years ago Countries in the Asia-Pacific region this week became some of the first after the U.S. to secure supplies of molnupiravir, the pill that the pharmaceutical company Merck says could halve the risk of hospitalization and death from Covid-19. nyti.ms
@guardian 4 years ago The California region where Covid ‘just isn’t slowing down’ theguardian.com
@WSJ 4 years ago Governments across the Asia-Pacific region are tightening restrictions on daily life as they face a growing threat from the Delta variant of Covid-19 on.wsj.com
@guardian 4 years ago WA, NT and SA Covid restrictions: update to coronavirus rules for Perth and Peel region, Darwin and South Australia theguardian.com
@guardian 4 years ago WA, NT and SA Covid restrictions: update to coronavirus rules for Perth and Peel region, Darwin and South Australia theguardian.com
@nytimesworld 4 years ago The Lisbon region of Portugal will go into lockdown this weekend following a surge of coronavirus cases, many linked to the Delta variant. The country logged this week its highest number of new infections since March. nyti.ms
@WSJ 4 years ago President Biden said the U.S. will provide Covid-19 vaccines to 550,000 South Korean troops working in close contact with American forces in the region on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago Ten people were killed and nine injured after a fire broke out in an apartment building in Xinjiang, a far western Chinese region, officials said, where Covid-19 lockdowns have confined many residents to their homes for more than three months. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 3 years ago The World Health Organization expects the number of Covid-19 deaths in its Africa region to fall sharply this year, compared with 2021, the agency said on Thursday. nyti.ms
@WSJ 3 years ago Countries in the Asia-Pacific region are creating tougher rules for those infected with the Omicron Covid-19 variant on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago Governments across Europe and Asia slapped new restrictions on flights and travelers from a swath of southern Africa, acting to stem the transmission of a new Covid-19 variant identified in the region on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago A court in a southern Chinese border region announced that it had given a man a two-year suspended prison sentence for lying when he entered the country about whether he had been exposed to the coronavirus or developed symptoms. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 3 years ago Countries in the Asia-Pacific region this week became some of the first after the U.S. to secure supplies of molnupiravir, the pill that the pharmaceutical company Merck says could halve the risk of hospitalization and death from Covid-19. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 4 years ago As Covid cases drop quickly in South America, experts say the speed with which the region has vaccinated people has helped. Governments there have generally not faced apathy, politicization and distrust of vaccines. nyti.ms
@WSJ 4 years ago Japan widened its state of emergency to the entire Tokyo region and extended it until the end of August in response to the Covid-19 outbreak during the Olympics on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 4 years ago Japan's rise in Covid-19 cases is part of a surge across the Asia Pacific region, where countries that once led the world in containing the virus are grappling with new variants and a lack of vaccines. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 4 years ago By some measures, Latin America has been hit harder by the pandemic than any part of the world. The region, with less than 10 percent of the population, accounts for nearly a third of total recorded Covid deaths. And today, it faces an education crisis. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 4 years ago Japan’s leaders are racing to lift Covid-19 vaccination rates at home, but they are also donating millions of doses in the Asia Pacific region as part of a wider geopolitical strategy. nyti.ms
@WSJ 4 years ago Biden said the U.S. will provide Covid-19 vaccines to 550,000 South Korean troops working in close contact with American forces in the region on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago Ten people were killed and nine injured after a fire broke out in an apartment building in Xinjiang, a far western Chinese region, officials said, where Covid-19 lockdowns have confined many residents to their homes for more than three months. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 3 years ago The World Health Organization expects the number of Covid-19 deaths in its Africa region to fall sharply this year, compared with 2021, the agency said on Thursday. nyti.ms
@WSJ 3 years ago Governments across Europe and Asia slapped new restrictions on flights and travelers from a swath of southern Africa, acting to stem the transmission of a new Covid-19 variant identified in the region on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago Britain, Israel, Italy and Singapore are among the nations moving to restrict travel from South Africa and other countries in the region, a day after South African authorities identified a concerning new coronavirus variant. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 3 years ago Spain’s Basque region on Tuesday announced new restrictions on gatherings to control its latest coronavirus wave, after months in which Spain stood out as a country that had largely reined in the pandemic, in particular thanks to a high vaccination rate. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 4 years ago The Asia-Pacific region which at one time struggled to get Covid-19 vaccination programs off the ground, is now speeding ahead with inoculations, lifting hopes of a return to normality. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 4 years ago The W.H.O. is taking matters into its own hands as it seeks proposals to manufacture Covid-19 vaccines in the Latin American-Caribbean region, which has limited access to vaccines produced in wealthy nations. nyti.ms
@WSJ 4 years ago Across the Asia-Pacific region, low rates of Covid-19 infection and vaccination have led to an immunity shortfall as the Delta variant strikes on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 4 years ago Japan's rise in Covid-19 cases is part of a surge across the Asia Pacific region, where countries that once led the world in containing the virus are grappling with new variants and a lack of vaccines. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 4 years ago By some measures, Latin America has been hit harder by the pandemic than any part of the world. The region, with less than 10 percent of the population, accounts for nearly a third of total recorded Covid deaths. And today, it faces an education crisis. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 4 years ago All across the Asia-Pacific region, the countries that led the world in containing the coronavirus are now languishing in the race to put it behind them.  Vaccination campaigns are just now revving up or have barely begun, leaving a trail of exasperation. nyti.ms
@guardian 4 years ago India’s neighbours close borders as Covid wave spreads across region theguardian.com
@WSJ 2 years ago As Covid-19 cases trigger a fresh wave of lockdowns in China, those living in the Xinjiang region say they have been enduring a lockdown that has lasted months on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago Even though Omicron is still raging in some parts of Asia, many countries in the region are dismantling thickets of Covid rules at bewildering speeds. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 3 years ago Governments across Europe are beginning to tighten restrictions again amid the latest wave of new coronavirus cases, threatening the gains that the region has made against the pandemic. nyti.ms
@WSJ 3 years ago Covid-19 cases and deaths in Europe now eclipse the U.S., and the region is realizing that defeating the Delta variant is proving harder than hoped on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago Spain’s Basque region on Tuesday announced new restrictions on gatherings to control its latest coronavirus wave, after months in which Spain stood out as a country that had largely reined in the pandemic, in particular thanks to a high vaccination rate. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 4 years ago The Pan American Health Organization has struck a deal with Sinovac to buy millions of Covid-19 vaccines for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of an effort to make more shots available in a region where access has been highly unequal. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 4 years ago The arrival of the Chinese vaccines was supposed to help stop the spread of the coronavirus in Southeast Asia. Instead countries across the region are quickly turning elsewhere to look for shots. nyti.ms
@WSJ 4 years ago The Himalayan nation of Bhutan completed a rapid-fire Covid-19 vaccination campaign, fully inoculating 90% of its eligible adult population, a bright spot in the region on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 4 years ago Japan's rise in Covid-19 cases is part of a surge across the Asia Pacific region, where countries that once led the world in containing the virus are grappling with new variants and a lack of vaccines. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 4 years ago The U.S. territory of Guam is offering Covid vaccinations to travelers from any country in a bid to lift tourism to the island. The program is open to international tourists age 12 and over and aims mostly at countries in the Asia-Pacific region. nyti.ms
@WSJ 4 years ago Voters in Peru could elect Pedro Castillo, leader of a Marxist party, as president this weekend as the region deals with economic and Covid-19 crises on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago Dozens of police officers have been injured in more than a week of unrest in Northern Ireland, where anger over the effects of Brexit on the U.K. region is intersecting with crime and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on.wsj.com