COVID-19

Can “vaccine diplomacy” change any minds in Central Asia when it comes to the Russia vs. China equation?

The impacts of the pandemic on India’s youth threaten to last for years to come, undoing decades of progress on multiple fronts.

China is keeping its vaccination campaign homegrown -- despite some reservations from the public.

New Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene became the first to get his shot, kicking off Mongolia's vaccine campaign.

Japan's lagging vaccine roll-out draws attention to the barriers in commercializing domestic vaccine production.

The spike has been most pronounced in the western state of Maharashtra.

In the wake of the national security law, public trust in the government has reached new lows. That is inevitably impacting Hong Kong's pandemic response.

As expected, the team made few definitive pronouncements – other than ruling out the theory that the virus originally leaked from a lab in Wuhan.

Best practices for containing COVID-19 include widespread testing, aggressive contact tracing, and open public communication. The Japanese government does none of these.

The country could also receive its first vaccine doses in February, although it must work around its exclusion from the World Health Organization.

Pakistan was the first country to receive donations of a Chinese COVID-19 vaccine, reflecting the countries' warm bilateral relationship.