COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China, Variant of Concern 202012-012020-12-24
Saudi Arabia begins its vaccination campaign a day after it received two shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. More than 150,000 people have registered to receive the vaccine. 2020-12-17
61,964 hospitalizations are reported in the United States, a new record high surpassing the previous record on April 15 and the first time that there are more than 60,000 Americans hospitalized for COVID-19. 2020-11-10
In Beijing, authorities arrest Xu Zhangrun, a law professor who published essays strongly criticizing Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping over censored academia on the COVID-19 pandemic and accusing him of ruling "tyrannically." 2020-07-6
A University of Barcelona-led investigation uncovers traces of SARS-CoV-2 in frozen Barcelona sewage samples drawn on 12 March 2019, more than half a year before the first publicly confirmed case of COVID-19 in China. 2020-06-26
The death toll from COVID-19 in the U.S. reaches 1,200. The total number of cases in the country is 83,097. The U.S. has surpassed China in number of active cases, making it the country with the most cases in the world. 2020-03-26
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirms that Steven Dick, a 37-year-old diplomat to their mission in Budapest, has died from COVID-19. 2020-03-25