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Indian President Ram Nath Kovind announces that 90% of adults in India have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
2022-01-31

India reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in two foreigners who travelled to Karnataka.
2021-12-2

Brazil lifts an air travel restriction that prevented travel from the United Kingdom, South Africa and India due to the pandemic. Travellers from these countries can now enter Brazil after showing a negative COVID-19 test result.
2021-10-6

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

Brazil reports its first cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant, which was first discovered in India. The variant had been detected among a group of six crew members of a ship travelling from South Africa to deliver iron ore in São Luís, Maranhão.
2021-05-20

Mexico reports its first case of the Lineage B.1.617 variant first discovered in India in the state of San Luis Potosí.
2021-05-2

Belgium reports its first cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant in a group of Indian nursing students who travelled from Paris.
2021-04-22

India reports 1,133 deaths from COVID-19, the highest single-day total. The death toll in the country reaches 72,775.
2020-09-8

India reports more than 77,000 new cases in the last 24 hours, taking the nationwide total to more than 3.38 million, the highest single day spike for the country for the second consecutive day, and the highest single day caseload in the world apart from the United States.
2020-08-28

India reimposes a two-week lockdown in parts of the country as the country records 30,000 new daily cases.
2020-07-15