Turkiye has eased all entry requirements for visitors, Turkiye Tourism Board said on Monday (June 6). The country expects to receive a large number of Indian travellers this year, as reported by PTI.

Turkiye eases COVID-19 restrictions for Indian tourists

Saudi Arabia welcomes first foreign pilgrims after COVID-19 hiatus

The Mumbai city recorded 505 new covid - 19 cases on Tuesday, showing a five-fold increase in cases in the past one month, increasing all India tally to 2745 new cases.

Mumbai sees five-fold increase in covid cases

Northern Irish singer and songwriter Van Morrison has started legal proceedings against the Northern Ireland Department of Health and its minister, Robin Swann, over an opinion piece the latter wrote for Rolling Stone magazine.

Van Morrison sues Northern Ireland Health Department and minister Robin Swann over COVID song criticism

In pics: From checking on construction to making coffee, Singapore’s robots to fill in labour gaps

The World Health Organization's (WHO) members re-elected Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as Director General by a strong majority for another five years, the president of the World Health Assembly said on Tuesday.

Tedros re-elected as head of World Health Organization

According to a recent Oxfam report, "Profiting from Pain," the Covid-19 pandemic created a new billionaire every 30 hours, and a million people could slip into extreme poverty at the same pace in 2022.

'Profiting from Pain': Covid created a billionaire every 30 hours — Oxfam at Davos forum

Thailand will allow night clubs and karaoke bars to resume regular hours starting in June, a senior official said on Friday, dropping most of its remaining pandemic restrictions as daily infections decline.

COVID-19: Thailand to lift curbs on nightlife from June this year

Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, advisers to the US government said Thursday. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention quickly adopted the panel’s recommendation, opening a third COVID-19 shot to healthy elementary-age kids just like what is already recommended for everybody 12 and older.

COVID-19: CDC recommends Pfizer booster for children aged 5 to 11

In pics: North Korea deploys army to curb virus outbreak

Visitors are once again jamming the narrow streets of Barcelona's Gothic quarter as global travel bounces back from the pandemic, reviving tensions over mass tourism in the Spanish port city.

Mass tourism returns to Barcelona - so does debate 

In Pics: For first time, North Korea reports Omicron cases, goes for lockdown

Japanese authorities have pledged to investigate a mix-up that saw high school athletes given hand sanitiser to drink during a race, with one student falling ill after taking a swig.

Japan: School kids served sanitiser in place of water in horrible mix-up

Germany's iconic Oktoberfest beer festival will once again take place in Munich in 2022 after being cancelled two years running due to the coronavirus, the city's mayor said Friday.

Oktoberfest to return this year after two years of virus hiatus

On Wednesday (April 27), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged State governments to speed up COVID-19 vaccination for youngsters and increase genome sequencing to check newer strains amid fears of a fresh viral outbreak as daily incidence reached a six-week high.

Indian PM Modi says COVID jabs for kids a priority, urges caution at meet with CMs

A new report released on Tuesday (April 26) said that more than half of Americans showed signs of previous infection of Covid. The report also mentions that such signs were showed by three out of four children.

More than half US adults, three out of four children have had Covid: Report    

India reported 2,541 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours while the total number of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,30,60,086 with 16,522 active cases, as per the figures released by the Union Ministry on Monday.

India records rise in active COVID-19 cases

Johnson & Johnson suspended sales forecasts for its Covid-19 vaccine during the American pharmaceutical giant's quarterly earnings call Tuesday, as demand lags behind that of shots by Moderna and Pfizer.

Johnson & Johnson suspends sales forecast for Covid vaccine

A global summit to chart an end to the Covid-19 crisis and plan for future upheavals will occur May 12, the White House said Monday, even as President Joe Biden struggles to get vital pandemic funding from Congress.

United States announces global covid summit May 12

International cruise ships return to Australia after two-year Covid ban - see pics

The UK's medicines regulator on Thursday approved Valneva as a new vaccine to protect against COVID-19, the first whole-virus inactivated COVID vaccine to gain regulatory approval in the country.

UK medicines regulator approves Valneva COVID-19 vaccine for adult use

Shanghai, which is reeling under a massive outbreak of coronavirus cases, has released over 11,000 recovered COVID-19 patients from hospitals, but infection numbers continued to climb, raising questions about China's much-touted dynamic zero-case policy.

Shanghai releases thousands of recovered Covid patients, but new cases continue to rise

China has sent the military and thousands of healthcare workers into Shanghai to help carry out COVID-19 tests for all of its 26 million residents as cases continued to rise on Monday, in one of the country's biggest-ever public health responses.

China sends military, doctors to Shanghai to test 26 million residents for Covid

The world's largest Muslim-majority nation of Indonesia welcomed the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan with a mass prayer at Jakarta's grand mosque on Saturday, with plateauing coronavirus cases allowing for eased restrictions this year.

Indonesia greets Ramadan with mass prayer as Covid curbs ease

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