Greece begins to implement mandatory weekly COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated people. Public and private employees are required to pay for tests for their unvaccinated employees while unvaccinated high school students will be given test kits distributed at the government's expense. 2021-09-13
U.S. President Joe Biden announces that federal employees will be required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine or undergo a COVID-19 test. He also urges The Pentagon to approve a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the United States military. 2021-07-29
Cambodia reports a record 576 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 3,604. 2021-04-9
Iran surpasses 60,000 deaths from COVID-19, the highest death toll of a Middle Eastern country. 2021-02-28
Oklahoma reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant originated from Brazil in a woman who had a travel history. 2021-02-5
Minnesota reports 8,703 new cases, a new single-day record as seven-day positivity rate reaches 15 percent. 2020-11-14
Thailand's cabinet agrees to extend a state of emergency until the end of November to contain its COVID-19 outbreak. 2020-10-28
Governor Andy Beshear reports a record-high number of new infections in the state with 1,786 cases. 2020-10-27
Myanmar reports the country's first confirmed cases of COVID-19, the patients are a 36-year-old who had travelled back from the United States and a 26-year-old returning from the United Kingdom. Panic buying is reported in the country's largest city, Yangon. 2020-03-23