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Commuters wear PPE (personal protective equipment), including a face mask as a precautionary measure against COVID-19. (AFP)

Australia PM pushes for jobs to minimise government welfare spending

Country's second-most populous state, Victoria, resume tourism as virus eases

24 May 2020 3:55 PM IST

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. (AP)

New Zealand cafe denies entry to its PM to ensure social distancing

As New Zealand eases out of coronavirus lockdown, cafes were allowed to reopen on Thursday, but are required to maintain...

17 May 2020 9:15 AM IST

People have lunch at a restaurant along the shoreline as stage 1 of the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions begin in Sydney. (AP)

Australians emerge from coronavirus lockdown to beers and lattes

Country's second most populous state reported a total of 29 new cases on Friday, a bump up from the recent daily average...

15 May 2020 1:37 PM IST

New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern, right, walks with deputy prime minister Winston Peters to the house for the budget delivery speech at Parliament in Wellington. (AP)

New Zealand plans spending spree to counter virus job losses

New Zealand finance minister unveils new budget on the same day the nation lifted most of its lockdown restrictions

14 May 2020 10:59 AM IST

Representational Image. (AP)

Australian church fined for selling bleach as virus cure

The development comes weeks after US president Donald Trump was criticised for suggesting Covid patients could be...

13 May 2020 3:04 PM IST

A stranded Australian citizen wears a face mask while in a queue to board a flight back to her country. (AP)

Australia readies to ease COVID-19 restrictions

Australia has fewer than 800 people still sick with COVID-19, and new cases have dropped below 20 each day

8 May 2020 11:12 AM IST

Medical staff perform a test for the COVID-19 coronavirus on a driver at a drive-through testing site in a Melbourne carpark. (AFP)

Australia eyes early end to virus restrictions

Daily new cases are now close to single figures, while some parts of the country have not seen a case in more than a...

1 May 2020 1:27 PM IST

A worker wearing a mask and protective gear walks between the emergency structures set up to ease procedures at the Brescia hospital in northern Italy. As Italy prepares to emerge from the Wests first and most extensive coronavirus lockdown, it is increasingly clear that something went terribly wrong in Lombardy, the hardest-hit region in Europe. (AP)

As virus lockdown eases, Italy ponders what went wrong

Italy was the first Western nation to be slammed by the virus, and its total of fatalities lags behind only the US in...

26 April 2020 4:27 PM IST

Former Fiji prime minister, Laisenia Qarase (AFP)

Former Fiji prime minister Qarase dies

Qarase was a champion of indigenous Fijians and won two elections without gaining any significant support from the...

21 April 2020 1:57 PM IST

A security guard (R) hands a face mask to a visiter in a car by using a stick outside a COVID-19 coronavirus clinic in Lower Hutt, near Wellington. AFP Photo

New Zealand to ease lockdown restrictions as virus cases drop

While restrictions will be loosened slightly, social distancing rules will remain, prime minister JAcinda Ardern said

20 April 2020 12:35 PM IST

A delivery driver wearing a face mask delivers groceries to a home in central Christchurch, New Zealand. AFP Photo

Police website crashes as New Zealanders report those breaking...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern backed the informants and also urged the public to report any price gouging at...

30 March 2020 11:18 AM IST

Australia's Queensland goes ahead with local polls amid Covid19...

The vote came as confirmed virus cases in Australia rose above 3,500 on Saturday, with 14 deaths

28 March 2020 11:57 AM IST