During the COP26 conference, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua announce that the United States and China have reached an agreement on combating climate change. 2021-11-10
Thailand reports a record 34 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 486. 2021-05-12
The Maharashtra state government announces that there will be a nightly curfew as well as a weekend lockdown in order to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases. These measures will be implemented from tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. until April 30. 2021-04-4
Brazil signs a deal with Pfizer to purchase 100 million doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine. 2021-03-15
Northern Cyprus reports its first case of B.1.1.7 variant in 16 samples that contracted SARS-CoV-2 variant first detected in the United Kingdom. 2021-02-8
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency reports 208 new confirmed cases, the highest single-day total since early September and the eighth consecutive day of triple-digit increases, bringing the total number of cases to 28,546. 2020-11-15
The municipal health commission in Jinan finds coronavirus on imported beef and tripe from Brazil, New Zealand, and Bolivia, as well as on packaging for these products, as China ramps up testing on imports of frozen foods. 2020-11-15
Sinovac Biotech is starting Phase III trials of its potential COVID-19 vaccine following a fast-track approval for the trials by Brazilian regulators last week. The study, done in partnership with Brazilian vaccine producer Instituto Butantan, will recruit nearly 9,000 healthcare professionals working in COVID-19-specialized facilities and start this month. 2020-07-7