Pfizer and BioNTech say that their COVID-19 vaccine is 80% effective in young children. 2022-05-23
Russia reports a record for the seventh consecutive day of 88,816 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 11,404,617. 2022-01-27
Mexico reports a record 30,671 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 4.1 million. The country also surpasses 300,000 deaths from COVID-19. 2022-01-8
Greece begins to implement measures that ban people who are unvaccinated or who have not recovered from COVID-19 from entering indoor public places and also mandates the wearing of masks in all workplaces in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19. 2021-11-22
Regional Victoria re-enters a lockdown as COVID-19 infections spread from an ongoing cluster in Melbourne. 2021-08-21
Cambodia imposes a two-week lockdown in eight provinces bordering Thailand as well as a nationwide night curfew in an effort to reduce the resurgence of COVID-19 cases caused by the Delta variant. 2021-07-30
China announces that a World Health Organization team investigating the origins of COVID-19 will arrive in the country on Thursday. 2021-01-11
Japan reports a record 7,841 new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours. 2021-01-8
Moderna's preliminary results show their vaccine candidate is 94.5% effective at preventing COVID-19 infections. The results also suggest that in cases of COVID-19 infection after vaccination, the vaccine appeared to prevent severe illness. 2020-11-16
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot issues a new stay-at-home advisory that asks people to leave the house only for work, school or other essential reasons. It is scheduled to take effect for 30 days beginning at 6:00 a.m. CST on November 16. 2020-11-12