In the wake of several European countries suspending the use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, the company has said that there has been no evidence of increased blood clot risk from its jab. ....

A quarantine hotel in the Australian state of Queensland has been placed under a lockdown, with genomic sequencing showing the likely spread of Covid-19 between overseas travellers. ....

New Zealand reported one new Covid-19 case in managed isolation, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Sunday. ....

More European countries, fully or partially, have suspended the use of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by British company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford following reports of several suspected deaths from clotting after inoculation. ....

On the heels of the Quad summit, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit India next week to meet Defence Minister Rajnath Singh as Washington focuses on China as an emerging threat, according to a Pentagon official. ....

The coronavirus infection rate in England has fallen to the lowest level since September 2020, data from the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed. ....

"The Quad has come of age," Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared on Friday at the start of the summit of the leaders of the four nations to take the group to a next level of enhanced cooperation. ....

Pakistan has once again banned Chinese short-video making app TikTok, this time for allegedly peddling vulgarity and spreading objectionable content on its platform. ....

US Vice President Kamala Harris will also participate in the first Quad summit with President Joe Biden and Prime Ministers Narendra Modi of India, Scott Morrison of Australia and Yoshihide Suga of Japan on Friday, according to the White House. ....

There is no indication that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is linked to an increased risk of blood clots, the EU's medicines regulator has said. ....