Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh receive their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. 2021-01-9
COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China, Variant of Concern 202012-012020-12-24
Portugal reports a record 95 new deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 5,373. 2020-12-11
Retired footballer and current coach of Al Sadd SC Xavi Hernández announces he tested positive for COVID-19. 2020-07-25
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