Sources: DW
German Health minister Jens Spahn and regional health ministers agree to offer booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for all vaccinated people amid a fourth wave of the pandemic. 2021-11-5
The Italian Medicines Agency approves the administration of a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to clinically vulnerable people using the MRNA-based Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. 2021-09-9
Regional Victoria re-enters a lockdown as COVID-19 infections spread from an ongoing cluster in Melbourne. 2021-08-21
German health minister Jens Spahn and leaders of 16 states agree to offer booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine for elderly and at-risk groups beginning in September and make vaccinations widely available for children between the ages of 12 and 17 years old amid concerns about "reduced immune response" due to the spread of the Delta variant. 2021-08-2
Germany's Federal Health Ministry demands that Johnson & Johnson deliver 6.5 million doses of its vaccine by July in order to offset a vaccine shortfall. A spokesman for the ministry says that the situation is regretful and that only 1.15 million doses of the vaccine had been administered as of last Friday. 2021-06-13
The Democratic Republic of the Congo announces that it will redeploy several of their AstraZeneca vaccines to other Africa countries. 2021-04-29
Germany will close its border with the Czech Republic and Austria's Tyrol region beginning on the evening of February 14 because of a high risk of variants of SARS-CoV-2. 2021-02-11
President Nicos Anastasiades announce a curfew from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. local time and orders bars, cafés, restaurants and cultural venues to close at 10:30 p.m. beginning November 6 and until the end of this month. 2020-11-4
The Robert Koch Institute reports 4,058 new cases in Germany in the past 24 hours. It is the biggest number of reported cases in a single day since April, which health minister Jens Spahn described as "alarming" and blames young people for failure to observe social distancing. 2020-10-8