The Czech Republic reports a record 30,350 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. 2022-01-25
British health secretary Sajid Javid announces that the self-isolation period for positive COVID-19 patients in England will be reduced to five days in order to reduce the impact of absences caused by the Omicron variant on businesses and the health sector. This change will take effect on January 17. 2022-01-13
Cyprus reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in three Greek Cypriots who travelled from South Africa in Limassol. 2021-12-10
Fiji reports a record 180 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 2,270. The Ministry of Health also reports two deaths as the disease rapidly spreads across the country. 2021-06-22
Germany's Federal Health Ministry demands that Johnson & Johnson deliver 6.5 million doses of its vaccine by July in order to offset a vaccine shortfall. A spokesman for the ministry says that the situation is regretful and that only 1.15 million doses of the vaccine had been administered as of last Friday. 2021-06-13
The number of recovered patients in Indonesia increases by a record 5,981 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of recovered patients to 558,703. 2020-12-23
Turkey reports a record 141 new deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 12,084. 2020-11-20
Hong Kong government has reversed a day-old total ban on restaurants serving dine-in customers that was introduced to control the spread of COVID-19, and publishes new guidelines that allow restaurants could operate dine-in facilities but only during the day, at 50% capacity, and with no more than two people at a table. 2020-07-30
An investigation led by the Federal University of Santa Catarina uncovers traces of SARS-CoV-2 in Florianópolis sewage samples drawn on November 27, 2019, two months earlier than the first official confirmed case of COVID-19 in the Americas on January 21, 2020, and much earlier than the first reported case in Brazil at the end of February. 2020-07-3