Niue reports its first COVID-19 case since the pandemic began in a person who traveled from New Zealand and who had tested negative prior to departing. 2022-03-10
The U.S. State Department tells Americans not to travel to Japan due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases there. 2021-05-24
The Philippines reports a new record for the second consecutive day of 7,999 confirmed cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 656,056. 2021-03-20
The Czech Republic reports their first cases of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa in a group of people who travelled to Zanzibar. 2021-02-25
The number of worldwide confirmed COVID-19 cases surpasses 100 million. 2021-01-26
Bali requires anyone entering and leaving the province to have a negative PCR swab test for air travel, and a negative rapid antigen test for land and sea travel. However, children aged 12 years and under are exempted from these requirements. 2020-12-19
The U.S. reports 3,309 deaths from COVID-19, a new one-day record. 2020-12-11
Iran reports 459 new fatalities in the last 24 hours, its single-day record since the pandemic began, raising the nationwide death toll to 38,291. 2020-11-8
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week changed its COVID-19 testing guidelines to say that people who've been in close contact with someone known to have COVID-19 but are asymptomatic now "do not necessarily" need to get tested. Health experts are expressing alarm over this revision since, for example, up to 50 percent of all COVID-19 transmissions are due to people who do not exhibit symptoms of the disease. 2020-08-26
New Zealand enters alert level 3 after the investigation into two assumed community-spread cases do not find any links to travel. All schools and public venues are closed. The country will enter alert level 4 on 26 March at midnight local time. 2020-03-23