Sources: CNN
Chief Executive Carrie Lam announces that, beginning next month, Hong Kong will lift its COVID-19 restrictions and will also end its ban on flights from the U.S. and eight other countries. 2022-03-21
Kosovo reports its first cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in two people who travelled from the United States, a person who travelled from France, two people who travelled from the United Kingdom, and four people with no international travel history. 2021-12-26
The University of Oxford links the Chinese government to a disinformation campaign promoting the unfounded claim that COVID-19 could have been imported to China from the United States through Maine lobsters shipped to a seafood market in Wuhan in November 2019. 2021-10-21
The United States surpasses 100,000 daily reported cases for the first time since February 11. 2021-07-30
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga receives his first dose of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine ahead of an April visit to the United States to meet President Joe Biden. 2021-03-16
The United States surpasses 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that have been administered. 2021-03-12
The Philippines includes the United States in its travel ban of countries and territories reported to have new variants of SARS-CoV-2, which comes into effect on January 3. The move comes after the United States reported its first case of a new variant from the United Kingdom on December 30. 2021-01-1
The Canadian federal government extends international travel restrictions for most travellers who are not Canadian citizens, permanent residents or people entering from the United States for "essential" reasons until January 21, 2021. 2020-11-29
Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Robert Kadlec says that the United States might expect deliveries of a COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021. 2020-10-10