Tokyo reports a record 31,878 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. 2022-07-21
President Filipe Nyusi and his wife Isaura test positive for COVID-19. 2022-01-3
Latvia ends its 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew and allows companies to fire employees who are unvaccinated against COVID-19. Unvaccinated people are also banned from taking their duties for parliament and entering shopping malls with a size greater than 1500 m2. 2021-11-15
A report is published documenting the ways people have been taking advantage of the pandemic to enrich themselves. Documented issues include selling false medical equipment or drugs, selling medical equipment or drugs at up to 10x the price, buying all available supplies so they will only be found on the black market, operating hospitals like expensive private hotels, charging twenty times the normal prices for ambulance services, charging a hundred times the regular cost for cremation services or supplies, selling false reports and records, and selling children orphaned by the pandemic. 2021-05-23
Hungary announces that hospitals are resuming elective surgeries, which had been suspended during the pandemic. However, due to the workload, altered circumstances, the vaccination campaign, and other factors, waiting list times have effectively doubled and are now one to two years for most patients. 2021-05-12
President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores receive their first doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. 2021-03-6
The government eases the restrictions on business operating hours outside of the Seoul Capital Area, allowing those businesses to operate until 10 p.m. local time amid a backlash over prolonged restrictions. 2021-02-6
Japan reports its first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from South Africa in a 30-year old woman who arrived in Japan on December 19 and later tested positive for COVID-19. 2020-12-29
Vietnamese airline Bamboo Airways suspends flights to South Korea starting February 26. 2020-02-24