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Moderna begins a study and a phase 2 trial of a hybrid vaccine aimed at combating the Omicron variant with their current COVID-19 vaccine.
2022-03-10

Singaporean Health Minister Ong Ye Kung announces that COVID-19 vaccine booster shots will be mandatory beginning on February 14 in order for people to maintain fully vaccinated status.
2022-01-5

Ontario reports Canada's first case of the Lineage P.1 variant in a person who travelled from Brazil to Toronto.
2021-02-7

India reports 19,556 cases of COVID-19, the lowest in the country since July 3.
2020-12-21

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announces that the country will impose a third nationwide lockdown beginning on December 26. However, people who take part in mass testing programmes between January 15 and 17 and test negative will be allowed to enter shops and restaurants beginning on January 18.
2020-12-18

Portugal reports 1,394 new daily cases, bringing the cumulative totals to 83,928 confirmed cases and 2,062 deaths. Ever since the end of national lockdown in May, this has been the ninth time that the country has registered some record increases in new cases, with all other eight records occurring since the beginning of September.
2020-10-9

Premier Li Keqiang says that the spread of the epidemic has been basically blocked and the outbreak controlled within China.
2020-03-24

Prime Minister Mark Rutte becomes the first Prime Minister since 1973 to hold a rare televised address to the nation concerning the coronavirus pandemic.
2020-03-16

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visits Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic, to direct epidemic prevention.
2020-01-27

A leading group on the prevention and control of the outbreak is established, led by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. The leading group decides to extend the Spring Festival holiday to contain the outbreak.
2020-01-26