Tunisia reports a record 7,930 new cases and 119 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 455,091 and the nationwide death toll to 15,601. 2021-07-6
Uzbekistan receives its first shipment of 660,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and distributed through the COVAX initiative. 2021-03-17
Irish health officials say that the three cases of the Brazilian variant of SARS-CoV-2 have been contained. 2021-02-20
Venezuela launches a vaccination program against COVID-19 using Sputnik V vaccine starting with frontline health workers. 2021-02-18
White House Coronavirus Task Force director Deborah Birx says that she will retire after President-elect Joe Biden's transition is completed. 2020-12-22
Turkey reports 28,351 new cases, including 6,814 symptomatic cases. The country now has 467,730 symptomatic cases. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca states that for the first time since July, the number of asymptomatic cases will be reported. Turkey also reports a record 168 new deaths, bringing the nationwide death toll to 12,840. 2020-11-25
The Department of Health and Social Care reports 684 more deaths from COVID-19, the highest daily death toll in the country to date, bringing the country's death toll to 3,605 and 38,168 confirmed cases. 2020-04-3
Arab Coalition warplanes bomb Yemen's capital Sana'a targeting a high-profile Houthi leader's house. At least nine civilians are killed in the attack. 2015-09-17