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New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces that the city will end its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses on November 1.
2022-09-20

The Federated States of Micronesia surpasses 1,000 cases of COVID-19 due a recent increase in the number of new cases.
2022-07-26

Singapore partially eases its social gathering restrictions and will allow up to five vaccinated people to dine in at food and drink establishments, hawker centres, and coffee shops as the country moves to the endemic phase due to a decrease in the number of new COVID-19 cases.
2021-11-22

Tokyo enters a fourth state of emergency that will cover the duration of the 2020 Summer Olympics in an attempt to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases. The state of emergency will remain in place until August 22.
2021-07-12

The United Kingdom adds Turkey, the Maldives and Nepal to its "red list" of countries, where travellers will be required to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days upon their return to the UK at their own expense. Twelve countries are also added to the government's "green list", including Portugal and Israel. This new "traffic light system" will take effect on May 17, when international travel is no longer illegal.
2021-05-7

Belize reports their first case of the Lineage B.1.1.7 variant in a member of the British Army Training Support Unit Belize who has been infected with this variant.
2021-02-25

The World Health Organization lists the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for emergency use.
2020-12-31

Health Minister Jan Blatný announces that the country will move from level 4 to level 3 of the pandemic alert system, allowing restaurants and non-essential shops to reopen beginning Thursday, but with social distancing limits for customers. The night-time curfew will also be lifted and limited sports activities can resume.
2020-11-29

Italy reports 642 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, which is the highest number of reported cases since May 23, when the lockdown was eased.
2020-08-19