YANGON, Mar 7 (NNN-MNA) – The number of COVID-19 infections has risen to 142,023 in Myanmar yesterday, according to a release from the Health and Sports Ministry. The country reported six new cases and no more death in the past 24 hours, the release said. A total of 131,658 recovered…

KABUL, Mar 7 (NNN-XINHUA) – Three people were killed in separate bomb blasts in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand and eastern Nangarhar provinces yesterday, local officials said. In Helmand’s provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, a car bomb killed Mahmood Sadat, an attorney of provincial Directorate of National Intelligence Agency, and one of his…

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Mar 7 (NNN-BBNEWS) – Brunei yesterday announced further reduction of social distancing measures, and implementation of New Normal for major social activities, including mass gathering, starting from tomorrow. Brunei’s Ministry of Health said, the COVID-19 pandemic in Brunei is currently under control, as the last case of…

NEW DELHI, Mar 7 (NNN-PTI) – Local government, in the northern Indian state of Punjab, yesterday, decided to impose night curfew in four districts, to tackle a recent spike in COVID-19 cases, officials said. According to officials, the orders for the imposition of night curfew in Jalandhar, Shaheed Bhagat Singh…

by Bambang Purwanto JAKARTA, Mar 6 (NNN-XINHUA) – Indonesia is shocked by the detection of two cases of a new virus variant, right after one year of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country, while the pandemic is still dragging on. Deputy Minister of Health, Dante Saksono Harbuwono, has confirmed the…

DHAKA, Mar 6 (NNN-BSS) – Bangladesh reported 635 new COVID-19 cases and six more deaths, making the tally at 549,184, and the death toll at 8,441, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said. The official data showed that, 13,710 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, across Bangladesh.…