French Prime Minister Jean Castex announces that a new COVID-19 vaccine pass will go into effect on January 24 pending approval from the Constitutional Council. The new pass will ban unvaccinated people from entering most public venues and travelling on domestic flights and inter-regional trains. Additionally, the mandate to work from home for more than 3 days per week will be lifted on February 2 and children between the ages of 12 and 17 years will be eligible to receive a booster dose beginning on Monday. 2022-01-20
Mauritius reports its first cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in two people who travelled from South Africa. 2021-12-11
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announces an extension of the remote learning period for secondary school students in grades 6–11 until November 22, as the city's COVID-19 situation worsens. 2020-11-5
New York state will reinstate restrictions on businesses, houses of worship and schools in and near areas where coronavirus cases are spiking, governor Andrew Cuomo said. The new rules will affect parts of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City, sections of Orange and Rockland counties in the Hudson Valley, and an area within Binghamton in the Southern Tier. This restrictions will take effect no later than Friday. 2020-10-6
Prime Minister Boris Johnson reverses an earlier advice against the wearing of face masks by secondary education students in local lockdown areas of England, following protests from head teachers and academic organisations against the earlier advice. Meanwhile, schools in areas of England not subject to tighter restrictions are given the discretion on whether to mandate the wearing of face masks for its students. 2020-08-25
President Rodrigo Duterte reimposes modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ), one of the strictest lockdown measures on Metro Manila and the surrounding provinces of the Philippine capital for 15 days. 2020-08-2
The Department of Health and Social Care reports 854 more deaths from COVID-19, the highest daily death toll in the country to date, bringing the UK's death toll to 6,159 and 55,242 confirmed cases. 2020-04-7