U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack tests positive for COVID-19. 2022-04-9
Poland indefinitely postpones its deadline of March 1 for mandatory full vaccination of teachers, members of the army and police officers, due to the current vaccination rate. 2022-02-8
Australia reports 361 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, including a record 319 cases in New South Wales, which is the highest single-day total of new cases for the country this year. 2021-08-7
Morocco receives half a million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine. 2021-01-27
Ireland officially begins a vaccination programme against COVID-19 using Pfizer-BioNTech's tozinameran vaccine, with a 79-year-old woman from Dublin becoming the first person to receive the vaccine. 2020-12-29
The government designates 28 mainland and overseas departments as "red zones" as the nation's test positivity rate increased to 4.7 per cent. 2020-09-6
South Korea announces a ban of large gatherings, shutting down high-risk facilities, banning in-person churches, and removing fans from professional sports nationwide tomorrow, as the country reports a new five-month high of 332 new cases in the last 24 hours, citing "a very dangerous situation that could trigger a massive nationwide spread of COVID-19". 2020-08-22
Johns Hopkins University says that the death toll due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States has surpassed the number of American casualties during World War I. 2020-06-17