The Australian state of New South Wales imposed stricter measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus after reporting 111 new cases and one death.

South Korea has imposed its strictest Covid-19 prevention measures as it battles a fourth wave of the virus witrh record numbers of cases.

A lockdown is announced in the Iranian city of Bam amid a surge in COVID cases in south of the country.

Here is the latest top stories from Press TV on June 29, 2021.

Turkey says it has administered about 36 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine since it launched a mass vaccination campaign in mid-January, awaiting to fully lift pandemic lockdown by July.

As official statistics show, the 3rd wave of COVID 19 is sharply spreading across Afghanistan and the government is struggling to reduce the level of harm coming from the disease.

Here is the latest top stories from Press TV on May 30, 2021.

The Afghan government imposes a two-week lockdown on nearly half of the educational centers and universities amid the third wave of COVID-19 in Afghanistan. 

The UK has entered its final month of lifting lockdown restrictions and in England and Scotland people are now allowed to visit friends and family in their homes for the first time this year.

Turkey started a normalization phase after 3 weeks of lockdown. A 15-day-long period of eased but not lifted restrictions has started in the country as daily numbers of new infected started falling.