Bloomberg The Philippines is looking to further reopen its economy even as coronavirus infections continue to rise, after a poll showed adult unemployment was at a record high last month. The government wants to allow more economic activity and extend aid to small businesses after 27.3 million Filipinos in a Social Weather Stations survey in early July said they were ...

Bloomberg New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has delayed the general election by four weeks until October 17 as the nation’s first community outbreak of Covid-19 in more than three months worsens. Ardern said on Monday she delayed the election from September 19 after consultation with other political parties, to provide certainty to voters. A fresh outbreak of the virus ...

Bloomberg Malaysia has detected a strain of the new coronavirus that’s been found to be 10 times more infectious. The mutation, earlier seen in other parts of the world and called D614G, was found in at least three of the 45 cases in a cluster that started from a restaurant owner returning from India and breaching his 14-day home quarantine. ...