South Korea reports a record 383,665 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. 2022-03-12
India reports a record 3,689 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 215,542. 2021-05-2
Brazil reports a record 90,303 new confirmed cases from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide case total to 11,693,838. 2021-03-17
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he is in "good health and recovering" after testing positive for COVID-19 in late January. 2021-02-4
The Gambia reports their first two cases of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a 34-year-old man who travelled to the United Kingdom and an 82-year-old woman who also tested positive. 2021-01-14
Ketchikan, in Southeast Alaska, shelters in place after six people test positive for COVID-19 in the town of 8,000 residents. 2020-03-21
Israel reports its first death from COVID-19, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor with pre-existing health conditions. 2020-03-20
Italy confirms that a 78-year-old man in Padua, Veneto, and a woman in her 70s in Codogno, Lombardy, have died after contracting the virus. They are the first two coronavirus deaths in Italy. 2020-02-22
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visits Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic, to direct epidemic prevention. 2020-01-27