SINGAPORE — Singapore’s record recession was deeper than first thought in the second quarter, data showed on Tuesday, signaling a lengthy path to recovery as the coronavirus pandemic dealt a major blow to Asia’s trade-reliant economies.

JAKARTA/BEIJING — China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd. launched on Tuesday a late-stage human trial involving as many as 1,620 patients in Indonesia for a COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) vaccine candidate that it is developing with Indonesian state-owned peer Bio Farma.

GLOBAL coronavirus cases pushed past 20 million on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, with the United States, Brazil and India accounting for more than half of all known infections.

EVEN if the most optimistic projections hold true and a Covid-19 vaccine is cleared for U.S. use in November, the vast majority of Americans won’t be able to get the shots until spring or summer next year at the earliest.

HONG KONG — Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai became the highest-profile arrest under a new national security law on Monday, detained over suspected collusion with foreign forces as scores of police searched the offices of his Apple Daily newspaper.

SYDNEY — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said internal border closures were unlikely to lift before Christmas, as the country on Monday reported a record single-day rise in COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) deaths.

MICROSOFT Corp. founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said it’s “mind-blowing” that the U.S. government hasn’t improved Covid-19 testing that he described as slow and lacking fair access.

A severe household water shortage facing two out of five people in the world is undermining efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Frequent and thorough...

BEDMINSTER, NEW JERSEY — President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Saturday partly restoring enhanced unemployment payments to the tens of millions of Americans who lost jobs in the coronavirus pandemic, as the United States marked a grim milestone of 5 million cases.

WELLINGTON — New Zealand marked 100 days without a domestic transmission of the coronavirus on Sunday, but warned against complacency as countries like Vietnam and Australia, which once had the virus under control, now battle a resurgence in infections.

WASHINGTON — The US State Department and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention on Thursday lifted global advisories recommending US citizens avoid all...

Indonesia’s government will spend aggressively in the coming months to support a nascent economic recovery after measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic sent Southeast...