U.S. President Joe Biden orders intelligence agencies to increase their investigations into the origin of the virus, following reports that researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology became ill a month before the pandemic began. 2021-05-26
India becomes the fastest country in the world to administer 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. 2021-04-10
The government extends the COVID-19 state of emergency in the Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the capital Tokyo and surrounding prefectures, for the next two weeks until March 21 as the number of new cases have not fallen sufficiently in order to lift the emergency. 2021-03-5
Portugal reports a record daily increase with 3,270 new cases, bringing the cumulative counts to 109,541 confirmed cases and 2,245 deaths. 2020-10-22
Education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer announces that 22 schools across metropolitan France and the overseas department of Réunion are closed again, only two days after the reopening of schools across the country, in response to rising cases and protests from parents and teachers' unions. 2020-09-4
Jorge Rodríguez, incumbent Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information announces he tested positive for COVID-19. 2020-08-12
Italy confirms that a 78-year-old man in Padua, Veneto, and a woman in her 70s in Codogno, Lombardy, have died after contracting the virus. They are the first two coronavirus deaths in Italy. 2020-02-22