The country overtakes Italy in the number of positives and becomes the second country in the world with more coronavirus cases. 2020-04-3
Premier François Legault announces that non-essential businesses in Quebec are to be shut down for three weeks. 2020-03-23
Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel self-isolates after being in contact with a doctor infected with COVID-19. 2020-03-22
Dubai-based airline Emirates announces that it will be suspending all passenger flights effective March 25 in response to the coronavirus pandemic, but will continue to operate cargo flights for essential goods. 2020-03-22
U.S. Senator from Kentucky Rand Paul tests positive for COVID-19. Mitt Romney and Mike Lee self-quarantine for 14-days despite not testing. 2020-03-22
The President of the Japan Football Association and deputy Olympic Committee chief Kozo Tashima tests positive for COVID-19. Japan insists the 2020 Summer Olympics will still go ahead as planned. 2020-03-17
Poland's Environment Minister Michał Woś tests positive for COVID-19. Other Cabinet ministers' workers self-isolate but later test negative. 2020-03-16
Ethiopia confirms its first case of COVID-19, a 48-year-old Japanese woman coming from Burkina Faso. 2020-03-13
Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping visits Wuhan, the epicentre and origin of the pandemic, after an unprecedented lockdown of the central city of 11 million people. 2020-03-10