A Leon County judge strikes down the mask mandate ban imposed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. 2021-08-27
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announces that the state of emergency will be lifted in nine prefectures on June 21. However, the government will maintain its quasi-emergency measures in seven prefectures, including Tokyo and Osaka. 2021-06-17
Apple and Google reject an update by the National Health Service to their contact tracing app because it breaches their privacy rules. 2021-04-12
Japan plans to extend the ongoing state of emergency to locations outside of the Greater Tokyo Area. 2021-01-12
Malaysian Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin signed an agreement with his Chinese counterpart Wang Zhigang to cooperate on the development of a safe and efficacious vaccine, as part of efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020-11-18
Austria reports a record increase of 5,627 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the cumulative nationwide total to 99,576 confirmed cases. 2020-10-30
Indonesia reports a daily jump of 4,176 new cases, bringing the country's total cases to 248,852. This sets a new record high for the country since the beginning of the pandemic. 2020-09-21
Portugal reports 847 new daily cases, bringing the cumulative totals to 68,025 confirmed cases and 1,899 deaths. Ever since the end of national lockdown in May, this has been the fifth time that the country has registered some record increases in new cases, with all five records occurring during an 11-day window. 2020-09-19
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer reports the state now has 20 more confirmed cases of COVID-19 than yesterday, for a total of 53. 2020-03-15