South Africa lifts its midnight curfew, allowing alcohol sales to return to normal hours in certain premises, and also allowing gatherings of up to 1,000 people indoors and 2,000 people outdoors, due to a decrease in the number of new COVID-19 cases. 2021-12-30
The African Union will purchase 110 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in a deal brokered by the United States, which will defer delivery of some doses intended for the U.S. in order to facilitate the deal. 2021-10-26
Israel launches antibody COVID-19 testing for 1.4 million children between the ages of 3 and 12 as part of a study to measure the extent to which COVID-19 spread undetected among children in the past 18 months. 2021-08-22
Denmark reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil in a person from the Capital Region. 2021-03-3
Austria tightens its border controls with all neighbouring countries in order to avoid non-essential travel due to the pandemic. 2021-02-7
Hong Kong extends their work from home arrangements for civil servants until January 27, as the city attempts to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases. 2021-01-19
The Netherlands begins a vaccination programme against COVID-19 with a nurse becoming the first person to be vaccinated with Pfizer's Tozinameran vaccine. 2021-01-6
Quebec reports a new single-day record of 1,448 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the province to 136,894. 2020-11-26