The US help to India to meet the COVID-19 surge is unconditional and does not expect political favours in return, State Department spokesperson Ned Prince has declared

Pakistan Army has been deployed across Pakistan to enforce strict COVID-19 health protocols. The move came after Prime Minister Imran Khan ordered the armed forces to help civilian authorities enforcing SOPs amid surging cases, Dawn reported

Authorities in Pakistan have decided to open vaccination for people above the age of 40, reported The Daily Times newspaper

Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Sri Lankan opposition leader and former prime minister, came down hard on the government, saying Colombo Port City will have more power than Prabhakaran, the former Tamil rebel commander who had once created a de facto Tamil state in the north and eastern part of Sri Lanka

A senior US official has said that the government was diverting its own supply of COVID-19 vaccine-manufacturing materials to India “as the most effective and rapid step” to help it

World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said the Covid situation in India is beyond heartbreaking as the South Asian country continued to report over 300,000 daily cases for the last five days and a massive spike in death counts too

Amid the continued crisis in the supply of ‘Liquid Medical Oxygen' (LMO) in the country, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)  reassured the nation that there was sufficient stock of oxygen in India and the only concern there has been that of transporting the life-saving commodity from the producing states to high-demand areas in this crisis period

Amid a continuous surge in COVID-19 cases, Bangladesh has decided to extend restrictions on the movement of people for one more week, reported The Daily Star

British Ambassador to Pakistan Christian Turner defended his country’s decision of red listing Pakistan, saying the move was based on “date and evidence”, reported The Express Tribune

As Nepali’s capital Kathmandu  continued to record a surge in the Covid-19 cases, the district administration has decided to restrict the movement of people and vehicle starting from Thursday this week, reported The Himalayan Times

Having lifted the ban on the supply of vaccine raw materials and COVID-fighting products for India, President Joe Biden assured Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a conversation that the US will work closely with India to fight the pandemic

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Yoshihide Suga on Monday discussed the Covid 19 situation in the two countries and highlighted the importance of close bilateral cooperation to overcome the various regional and global challenges posed by the pandemic

India-Pakistan backchannel talks are being held between the intelligence leaderships of the two countries, according to Dawn newspaper of Pakistan

The Nepal government has ruled out any immediate nationwide lockdown saying such measures cannot ultimately solve issues related to the coronavirus pandemic, The Himalayan Times reported

A former Pakistan prime minister, now one of the prominent leaders of an opposition alliance, has called upon the government to take parliament into confidence and build a consensus about proposals for a solution to the Kashmir issue