The French Minister of Social Affairs and Health announces a nationalized plan to provide a third booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccines to all adults beginning on 27 November, instead of enacting another nationwide state of lockdown in order to reduce the currently record-breaking spread of COVID-19. 2021-11-25
Prime Minister António Costa announces that all remaining COVID-19-related restrictions will be lifted on October 1, allowing nightclubs to reopen and restaurants to operate without capacity limits as more than 80% of people have been fully vaccinated. 2021-09-23
Africa secures another 400 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. 2021-01-28
COVID-19 pandemic in Washington (state), Variant of Concern 202012-012021-01-23
Chinese authorities tell 16 million residents in Shijiazhuang and Xingtai to stay home for the next seven days as Shijiazhuang suspends all public transport in order to combat the new outbreak of COVID-19. 2021-01-9
A Royal Caribbean ship, "Quantum of the Seas", that had 1,680 guests and 1,448 crew on board, returned to Singapore on the third day of a four-day "cruise to nowhere" after a passenger tested positive for COVID-19. 2020-12-9
India surpasses 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, becoming the third country to reach that milestone behind the United States and Brazil. 2020-10-3
France reports a sharp spike of new cases in the last 24 hours when more than 4,700 cases reported. It is first time that more than 4,000 new cases reported since May and the highest number of new cases since April, when the country was still in lockdown. 2020-08-20