The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) votes to recommend a third dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5–11 years old. 2022-05-19
South Africa's Afrigen Biologics uses the publicly available sequence of the mRNA-based Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to make its own version of the vaccine, which will become the world's first vaccine based on an existing vaccine once it is tested on humans later this year. 2022-02-3
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announces a three-week lockdown in the city beginning on March 20 which will close all cultural institutions and many non-essential shopping and entertainment malls due to an increase in COVID-19 cases. 2021-03-18
Fiji begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine donated by the COVAX initiative. Ten frontline workers are the first to receive doses of the vaccine. 2021-03-10
Malaysia receives its first shipment of 300,000 doses of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine. 2021-02-27
The number of new confirmed cases in South Korea reaches a nine-month high of 631 cases in the last 24 hours, the majority being from the Seoul Capital Area. The country now has 37,546 total confirmed cases, according to data from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. 2020-12-6
France reports 854 new fatalities in the past 24 hours, which is the highest number since April 15, with more than half coming from nursing homes. 2020-11-3
The Robert Koch Institute reports 1,045 new cases in Germany during the last 24 hours. It is the first time since May 7 that the number of new COVID-19 cases in the country has surpassed 1,000. 2020-08-6
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau's symptoms remain "mild" after testing positive COVID-19. 2020-03-13
North Korea reportedly bans foreign tourists and closes the China–North Korea border to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. 2020-01-21