The Mayor of Guayaquil, Cynthia Viteri, herself infected with COVID-19, condemns the federal government's response to the pandemic as the virus rapidly spreads inside the city. A joint military and police task force has collected at least 150 bodies off the streets. The government's spokesman Jorge Wated apologizes in a message broadcast on state television. 2020-04-2
Olympic silver medalist Ehsan Haddadi tests positive for COVID-19. 2020-03-27
The United States has its deadliest COVID-19 day to date, with 223 related deaths. 2020-03-25
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces that Canada will spend $192M to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. 2020-03-23
Myanmar reports the country's first confirmed cases of COVID-19, the patients are a 36-year-old who had travelled back from the United States and a 26-year-old returning from the United Kingdom. Panic buying is reported in the country's largest city, Yangon. 2020-03-23
The United Kingdom's Department of Health and Social Care confirms 53 more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the country's death toll to 233. All those who died had underlying health conditions and the oldest patient was 94-years-old, according to NHS England. 2020-03-21
Delaware confirms eight new presumptive cases of COVID-19, bringing the total of such cases to 16. 2020-03-17
Italy's Ministry of Health reports 250 more deaths from COVID-19, the highest number of deaths in a single 24-hour period in the country to date. The Mayor of Bergamo Giorgio Gori says churches are now being used to store dead bodies as the city's morgues are full. 2020-03-14
The number of confirmed cases in Italy rose to 9,172, while the death toll rose to 463. 2020-03-9
Two Japanese passengers who were on board of the "Diamond Princess" cruise ship have died from the disease. Both, a man and a woman in their 80s, had underlying health conditions. 2020-02-20