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Japan begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 beginning with 40,000 health workers.
2021-02-17

The number of recovered COVID-19 patients in Indonesia surpasses one million.
2021-02-12

Cambodia launches a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using 600,000 doses of Sinopharm's BBIBP-CorV vaccine. The son of Prime Minister Hun Sen, Hun Manet, and several cabinet ministers are among the first people to get vaccinated.
2021-02-10

New York governor Andrew Cuomo announces that 826 people have been hospitalized with COVID-19, the highest number since July 15.
2020-10-10

Patriarch Filaret, former honorary Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, founder and current Patriarch of once again the second non-canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate, was confirmed to be a positive case of COVID-19. He becomes the first independent and non-canonical autocephalous leader or patriarch in the Eastern Orthodox faith to contract the disease. Months earlier, he had stated that the pandemic was God's punishment for same-sex marriage, which is currently not legally-recognized in Ukraine. Activists say homophobia is still widespread in the national culture.
2020-09-8

France reports the largest rise of COVID-19 cases since the lockdown was lifted in May, with 2,524 new cases being reported in the last 24 hours.
2020-08-12

Guam Governor Lou Leon Guerrero tests positive for COVID-19.
2020-08-10

Save the Children reports a surge in deaths of people with coronavirus-like symptoms in Aden, with at least 380 in the last week. Officially, Yemen has only reported 13 COVID-19 deaths.
2020-05-14

The Houthis-controlled area of Yemen reports its first case of COVID-19 and first death; that of a Somali man who had liver and kidney conditions. The government in the south reports nine new infections.
2020-05-5

Officials in Yemen report the country's first deaths from COVID-19 in the port city of Aden.
2020-04-30