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The Food and Drug Administration officially authorizes the usage of a third dosage of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as a booster shot for individuals still considered vulnerable to COVID-19. Among those eligible are health care workers and senior citizens who have been fully inoculated with the vaccine for at least six months.
2021-09-22

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration vote to reject a wider COVID-19 vaccine booster dose and to only recommend booster doses for people over the age of 65 and people who are at high risk of severe illness.
2021-09-17

Vietnamese authorities launch a plan to conduct COVID-19 testing of up to 1.5 million people in higher-risk areas of Hanoi in order to contain an outbreak of COVID-19 infections as the capital extends its COVID-19-related restrictions for two more weeks.
2021-09-6

Slovakia reverses its ban on unvaccinated people attending public events and will instead allow a negative test or proof of recovery from COVID-19 during a visit by Pope Francis on September 12 to 15 due to low vaccination numbers.
2021-09-4

Germany reclassifies the United States, Israel, Turkey, Kenya, Montenegro and Vietnam as "high risk" COVID-19 areas, triggering mandatory 10-day quarantines for unvaccinated travellers unless they can show a negative test after five days. The changes will be in effect from August 17 for Turkey and from August 15 for the rest of the countries.
2021-08-13

Montenegro closes all discos and nightclubs as well as bans all indoor gatherings and music festivals due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. Nightclubs could be reopened on August 2, but only for those who have been vaccinated, tested negative, or who have recovered from COVID-19.
2021-07-23

France begins implementing a seven-day quarantine and pre-departure testing for EU nationals, French residents, and anyone travelling to the United Kingdom for essential reasons in order to prevent the spread of the Lineage B.1.617 variant that originated in India as all non-essential travel to the UK is currently banned.
2021-05-31

American regulators from the Food and Drug Administration confirm that Pfizer's vaccine candidate is 95% effective.
2020-12-8

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration grants an emergency use authorization for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' antibody cocktail to treat COVID-19 patients. The cocktail was previously given to President Donald Trump during his hospitalization for COVID-19 last month.
2020-11-21

Pfizer and BioNTech apply for an emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for their vaccine. If the application is approved, the vaccine will likely be limited and rolled out in phases.
2020-11-20