South and Central Asia

WHO investigates new strain, prompting calls to add Southeast Asian nation to red list

Desperate families being duped with fake medicines and promises of access to hospital beds and funeral services

Hospitals overflowing with patients as concern rises that Indian ’double mutation’ is spreading freely

Half of all people getting tested in Kolkata are positive for coronavirus

Witnesses claim many coronavirus fatalities are not being recorded as double mutation triggers healthcare crisis

Army of volunteers inoculate more than half of population in just seven days

Hopes of herd immunity extinguished as wave of new strain sweeps across the country

Children among the dead in ‘bloodiest’ crackdown since military coup

Experts left searching for answers after dramatic - and unexplained - decline in Covid infections

Region has reported low infection and death rates following speedy responses to pandemic

The detained civil leader fell from grace over Rohingya crisis but remains face of nation’s pro-democracy movement

At least one demonstrator killed in clashes with New Delhi police as tensions over new agricultural laws boil over

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Seven decades after the two countries went to war a delicate armistice is beginning to fray

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