New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces that the city will end its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses on November 1. 2022-09-20
Thailand decides to resume its quarantine-free travel for all vaccinated travellers beginning on February 1 due to low hospitalization and death rates despite the surging COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant. 2022-01-20
A COVID-19 vaccination mandate comes into effect in Victoria, with all essential workers required to have at least one dose of a World Health Organization-approved vaccine to continue working. 2021-10-15
The Indonesian Drug and Food Control Agency issues an emergency use authorization for the three dose Zifivax ZF2001 vaccine. 2021-10-7
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare signs a agreement with the Takeda Pharmaceutical Company to purchase 150 million doses of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine that will be manufactured and distributed domestically by Takeda beginning next year. 2021-09-7
The number of severe COVID-19 patients in Japan surpasses 2,000 for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. 2021-08-27
Palau reaches herd immunity as 80% of its 12-and-over population are vaccinated against COVID-19. Plans to vaccinate teenagers are underway as tourism reopens in the country. 2021-08-9
Russia reports 21,798 new infections in the past 24 hours, a new single-day record since they began, thus bringing the cumulative nationwide total to 1.79 million cases. 2020-11-9
Johns Hopkins University records 2,108 more deaths from COVID-19 in the United States, the highest daily death toll in the country to date, bringing the U.S. death toll to 18,693 and 500,399 confirmed cases. The U.S. becomes the first country to report over 2,000 COVID-19 deaths in a single day. 2020-04-10
A 5-year-old boy dies from COVID-19, becoming Europe's youngest victim of the virus to date. He had underlying health conditions. 2020-04-4