Spain's state of alarm, the emergency mechanism propping up the nationwide lockdown to contain COVID-19, will expire midnight on Saturday, 98 days after it first came into effect. ....

Beijing on Saturday reported 22 new domestically-transmitted COVID-19 cases, while maintaining a state of alert and continued testing of its residents after a fresh coronavirus outbreak was detected last week in the Chinese capital's wholesale food market. ....

New Zealand on Saturday reported two new COVID-19 cases, after the country registered three infections earlier this week for the first time in 24 days, director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield said. ....

The overall number of global corona cases has topped to over 8.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 453,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. ....

Former US Vice President Joe Biden leads sitting President Donald Trump by 8 points nationally, according to a new poll released. ....

Around 730 workers at a slaughterhouse in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) had tested positive for the novel coronavirus as of Thursday, German news agency DPA reported. ....

Dr Soumya Swaminathan, who is the chief scientist at the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday, said that nearly 2 billion doses of the Covid-19 vaccine would be ready by the end of next year. ....

The number of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh crossed the 100,000 mark on Thursday, authorities said, as the densely populated South Asian country struggles to contain the pandemic. ....

Nepal's national assembly on Thursday passed the controversial bill on its updated political administrative map which includes parts of Indian territory. The move has escalated the border dispute with India. ....

Kazakhstan's first President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has tested positive for COVID-19 and has gone into self-isolation, his office announced on Thursday. ....