The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan approves the AstraZeneca vaccine for emergency use in the country. 2021-01-16
COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China, Variant of Concern 202012-012020-12-24
Malaysia surpasses 50,000 total confirmed cases of COVID-19. 2020-11-18
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
Qatar announces 238 new cases of confirmed COVID-19 cases in a single day. 2020-03-11