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New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern. (Screengrab of video shared by PMs official handle)

New Zealand keeps the borders closed as virus has grim global hold

The country is almost off the coronavirus grid, with only one Covid-19 patient in hospital, and no new positive cases...

29 May 2020 2:33 PM IST

Representational Image. (AFP)

New Zealand and Australia to establish safe travel between the two...

Both have slowed the spread of the novel coronavirus to levels well below those in United States, Britain and some other...

27 May 2020 1:57 PM IST

Debris falls from a row of damaged shops in Perth, Australia, Monday, May 25, 2020. (AP)

Thousands without power in Western Australia after once in a decade...

Emergency services began cleaning up in Perth on Monday as wild weather downed trees and left around 50,000 citizens...

25 May 2020 11:26 AM IST

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern looks up when an earthquake struck during a live television interview in Wellington, New Zealand, Monday morning, May 25, 2020. (AP)

Jacinda Ardern 'stays cool' as earthquake hits amid live telecast

A moderate 5.6-magnitude earthquake rattled New Zealand's North Island early Monday

25 May 2020 8:30 AM IST

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