South Korea approves the use of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11 years. 2022-02-23
Russia reports a record for the sixth consecutive day of 74,692 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 11.3 million. 2022-01-26
Brazil reports a record 137,102 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 23,211,894. 2022-01-18
Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego administers the first vaccines to children between the ages of 5 and 11 years old after Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine was approved for use in children by the U.S. CDC. 2021-11-3
It is announced that more than 50 countries have missed the World Health Organization's (WHO) target for 10% of their populations to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of September. Most of these countries are in Africa, where the WHO's overall figure for fully vaccinated populations is currently 4.4%. 2021-10-1
Fiji receives its first shipment of 12,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative. 2021-03-6
Portugal reports a record increase of 770 new cases and ten deaths since the end of national lockdown in May, thus bringing the cumulative totals to 66,396 confirmed cases and 1,888 deaths. Today also marks the official start of the 2020-2021 public school year, which began with in-person classes nationwide. 2020-09-17
Italy says all schools and universities will close from March 5 through March 15 to stop the spread of the virus, as the country confirms a total of 3,090 cases and 107 COVID-19-related deaths. 2020-03-4