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As clocks struck 9 p.m. this week, customers packed up and left restaurants and other eateries across South Korea as a reimposed curfew designed to help stem a surge in coronavirus infections sparks fears of economic disaster for some businesses. Last week authorities announced a series of social distancing measures …

Covid-19 decimated tourism this year, but there is light at the end of the tunnel as Vietnam recently reopened to foreign tourists after an 18-month lockdown. Vietnamese airlines and travel firms started to recover in late 2020 thanks to stringent quarantine and good pandemic control measures, but the resurgence of …

The fast-spreading Omicron variant is now the dominant strain of Covid-19 in the United States, health authorities reported Monday, as the WHO called for greater efforts to ensure the pandemic ends next year. The new variant has helped fuel record case surges, forcing a return to harsh restrictions in some …