Premier of Quebec François Legault announces a curfew between 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. on New Year's Eve, bans private gatherings involving more than one household bubble, and closing dine-in restaurants amid the spread of COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant. 2021-12-30
Chile's Institute of Public Health issues an emergency use authorization for the Sputnik V vaccine. 2021-07-21
Michigan reports its first case of the Lineage B.1.617 Delta variant in a fully vaccinated person from Ottawa County. 2021-06-26
North Dakota reports their first case of the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2. 2021-02-17
The Indian state of Maharashtra records 4,097 fresh infections after 39 days of no infections 2021-02-14
Two 11-week-old white tiger cubs that died in Lahore Zoo on January 30 are believed to have died of COVID-19. 2021-02-13
The government orders a ban on passenger flights from the United Kingdom from 6:00 a.m. today until at least January 1 due to the spread of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in the UK, with a case of the variant already having been reported in the Netherlands. 2020-12-20
Iran announces that all government offices will close beginning tomorrow and only operate with essential staff. This comes as the country reports a record 14,051 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 922,397. 2020-11-27
Noted Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti dies in Milan, at age 92, after contracting coronavirus. 2020-03-15