Chile begins administering second booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to people who are most vulnerable to COVID-19, including immunocompromised people, becoming the first country in Latin America to do so. 2022-01-10
Singapore reports a record 3,577 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 113,381. 2021-10-6
Somalia closes all schools and universities for the next two weeks due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. 2021-02-22
The United Kingdom approves a vaccine made by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca for use in the country. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says that the rollout of this vaccine will begin on January 4. 2020-12-30
Australia reports 25 new COVID-19 deaths (all of them in Victoria), the deadliest day since the pandemic began. 2020-08-17
India reports a record 55,079 new COVID-19 cases, as well as 779 deaths. In the last 24 hours, 37,223 COVID-19 patients were cured and discharged, which also is the highest number of recoveries since the pandemic began. 2020-07-31
Air pollution in Northern Italy drops following the coronavirus lockdown. 2020-03-14
Iran says it will release 54,000 prisoners in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in overcrowded jails. Only inmates who test negative for COVID-19 will be allowed to leave prison and those sentenced to longer than five years will not be freed. 2020-03-3