While 1,743 new COVID-19 cases and 34 deaths were reported in a single day on Friday, the data of the National Command and Operation Centre on coronavirus shows that as many as 72 percent of total patients are over the age of 50 years

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has requested Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide US$ 1.1 billion special SWAP facility in addition to the US$ 400 million facility under SAARC to boost the country’s depleting foreign exchange reserves in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic

Sri Lanka reported 17 new cases Saturday, raising the total number of people contracted the coronavirus to 1085, according to the Health Ministry

Syed Manzur Elahi, one of the leading businessmen in Bangladesh, and his wife Niloufer Manzur, the founding head of Sunbeams school, have caught COVID-19

Ever since the first cases of the coronavirus were reported in Bangladesh, experts have stressed the need to expand the country's testing capacity in order to gauge the scope of the outbreak and formulate effective steps to mitigate its impact on public health

In an unexpected move, the Taliban on Saturday announced a three-day ceasefire with the Afghan government on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr

Zalmay Khalilzad, US special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation, welcomed the Taliban and Afghan government's decision to observe a ceasefire during Eid, saying: “This is a momentous opportunity that should not be missed

The Health Protection Agency (HPA), on Saturday, announced 39 new cases of COVID-19, increasing confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in Maldives to 1,313

Maldives' Education Minister Dr. Aishath Ali announced the academic new year in 2021 will begin mid-year. Dr. Aishath Ali made the announcement in an interview to RaajjeTV on Saturday night

The Foreign Ministry announced that the Maldives has repatriated 1,000 Bangladeshi workers under the Maldivian government’s repatriation initiative targeting undocumented workers

With 6,768 new cases on the second day in a row, the total case count of the novel coronavirus in the country crossed 1.30 lakh mark and docked at 1,31,868 on Sunday, the Health Ministry data revealed. At least 147 fatalities have also been recorded since Saturday, said the Health Ministry

A charity organisation has developed a mobile intensive care unit equipped with two ventilators and three beds in a bus for COVID-19 patients

International flight operations from India might commence from July depending upon the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak, Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said

Exodus of people from southern and western regions of India to the northeast region has led to a steep rise in COVID-19 positive cases, especially in Assam, where 132 new cases have been reported in the past 24 hours, taking the state's tally to 346 on Saturday

A large swarm of locusts from Africa is headed towards Gujarat. According to the Jamnagar District Collector, the swarm may affect the Jamnagar, Devbhumi Dwarka and Porbandar districts, the westernmost coastal districts of the state