The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency approves the use of antibody-based treatment to preventing infections in adults with poor immune response Evushield developed by AstraZeneca. 2022-03-17
Israel begins administering the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11 years. 2021-11-22
Nepal removes its quarantine requirement and resumes issuing visas on arrival for foreign travellers that have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. 2021-09-23
Vietnam reports a record for the third consecutive day of 11,321 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 336,707. 2021-08-21
The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh reports two new cases of the Lineage B.1.617 Kappa variant. 2021-07-13
Canada receives its first shipment of vaccine doses from the COVAX initiative. 2021-04-8
At age 95, former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad becomes the oldest person in Malaysia to receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Langkawi, Kedah. 2021-03-7
Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab announces a two-week full lockdown from November 14 - 30, after localized lockdown measures fail to stem the surge of COVID-19 cases. 2020-11-10
The Philippines posts a single-day Southeast Asian record, with 6,352 new COVID-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours, as well as 11 deaths. More than 66,000 people have recovered. 2020-08-4