Niue records its first community case of COVID-19, prompting Minister of Health Sauni Tongatule to move the country to its highest alert level. 2022-07-30
India reports a record 200,739 new cases and 1,038 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to over 14 million and confirmed deaths to 173,123. India is also the second country to surpass 14 million cases, after the United States. 2021-04-15
The first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrive in Canada. 2020-12-13
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly issues an executive order mandating citizens wear facemasks in public and at their workplace. 2020-07-2
Beijing closes all schools, locks down several residential estates and imposes a partial travel ban, urging residents not to leave the city, after 27 more COVID-19 cases are confirmed in the city, bringing the total to 106 new cases in the last five days. The new outbreak is linked to the Xinfadi Market. 2020-06-16
The Dubai Road Transport Authority announces that the elevators on the Dubai Metro will be restricted to two people at a time. 2020-05-15
Actor Tom Hanks reports that he and his wife Rita Wilson have been diagnosed with COVID-19 after visiting Australia where he was filming "Elvis". 2020-03-12