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New Zealand has fully reopened its international borders after two years, becoming the last country in the western world to open for tourists.
2022-08-1

New Zealand reports a record 23,894 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours.
2022-03-8

Lebanon begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19, a day after the first 28,500 doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine arrived in the country. A doctor at Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut is the first person to be vaccinated.
2021-02-14

Australia suspends their travel bubble with New Zealand for the next 72 hours after New Zealand's first community case in months was confirmed to be of the 501.V2 variant from South Africa.
2021-01-25

New Zealand health officials report the first community case of COVID-19 in more than two months in a person who travelled from Europe.
2021-01-24

Switzerland begins a mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine tozinameran. A ninety-year-old woman in Lucerne is the first Swiss citizen to receive the vaccine.
2020-12-23

Quebec Premier François Legault announces that all non-essential businesses in the province will be closed from December 25 until January 11 in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
2020-12-15

The death toll from COVID-19 in the United States exceeds 200,000.
2020-09-22

India reports 1,133 deaths from COVID-19, the highest single-day total. The death toll in the country reaches 72,775.
2020-09-8

BBC News reports that the number of deaths and confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Iran are about three times higher than what was reported by the government, according to a data leak.
2020-08-3