The two-week lockdown of Melbourne, the second most populous city of Australia, will end on Thursday midnight.

India's COVID-19 tally surpassed the 29 million-mark, reaching 29,089,069 on Wednesday, confirmed the country's health ministry.

Maldivian President announced that his country's ongoing restrictions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic will be extended by one week.

India's federal government said on Tuesday that it has placed orders to procure 440 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines - Covishield and Covaxin.

No COVID-19 related death was recorded yesterday in Sudurpaschim province, first in the past two months.  

Coronavirus has been confirmed on 5,153 more people in the last 24 hours in the country.

Germany has extended support of medical equipment and supplies to help Nepal fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Bagmati Province Ekata Samaj South Korea has aided the Mahabir Pun-led National Discovery Centre with 10 oxygen cylinders.

Health minister has urged one and all to adopt full safety precautions till vaccination against COVID-19 is made available to all the citizens. 

The Ministry of Health and Population has requested all concerned to return the empty oxygen cylinders.