Connecticut reports its first case of the SARS-COV-2 Omicron variant. 2021-12-6
Israel closes its borders to all foreigners and requires citizens who have travelled outside the country to quarantine for three days for fully vaccinated people and seven days for unvaccinated people as part of an effort to reduce the spread of the Omicron variant. 2021-11-28
Russia reports a record 973 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 218,345. 2021-10-12
Cambodia imposes a two-week lockdown in eight provinces bordering Thailand as well as a nationwide night curfew in an effort to reduce the resurgence of COVID-19 cases caused by the Delta variant. 2021-07-30
Turkey receives 6.5 million doses of the Sinovac Biotech vaccine. 2021-01-25
After nearly 30 members and staffers of the Michigan House of Representatives test positive for COVID-19, scheduled voting sessions for December 9 and 10 were cancelled. 2020-12-9
The government announces that it will temporarily close 28 Top Glove factories in Klang in stages to enable the Health Ministry to conduct COVID-19 screening and quarantine workers. This comes as the world's largest surgical glove maker sees an increase in infections among factory workers. 2020-11-23
The United Arab Emirates approves Sinopharm's vaccine for frontline workers following successful Phase III clinical trials in Abu Dhabi. The WHO-recognized trial began on July 16 and involved 31,000 volunteers. 2020-09-14
Brazil's Ministry of Health reports 54,771 new cases and that there are now 1,032,913 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country, becoming the second country in the world, after the United States, to surpass one million cases. 2020-06-19