Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul urges people to "move on" from COVID-19 and declares his intentions for Thailand to downgrade the disease to an endemic. However, he didn't include a time frame on when to do so and says that the situation will be reviewed by mid-June after bars, pubs and entertainment venues reopened in the country. 2022-06-8
Switzerland reports its first case of the Lineage B.1.617 variant first detected in India. 2021-04-24
Thailand reports its first case of the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a British national who traveled from the United Kingdom and later tested positive for COVID-19. 2021-01-3
Interior Minister Davor Božinović announces that Croatia will impose a ban on travel outside one's county between December 23 and January 8. 2020-12-18
Governor Phil Murphy goes into quarantine after two of his staffers tested positive for COVID-19. 2020-10-22
Brazil's Ministry of Health reports a record 34,918 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,282 more deaths in the last 24 hours. Despite the record daily rise, Chief of Staff of the Presidency Walter Souza Braga Netto says the virus is now under control. 2020-06-16
In Italy, the coronavirus death toll rises to 2,978. A total of 35,713 people have the virus in the country. 2020-03-18
The GSM Association decides to cancel this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, amid coronavirus concerns. The event would have been held between February 24 and 27. This is the first time that the mobile communications trade show has been cancelled. 2020-02-12