Macau closes all of its casinos in order to contain an outbreak of COVID-19 in the city. 2022-07-11
Shanghai Disney Resort will also require visitors to show a negative nucleic acid test. 2022-03-11
Kiribati announces a curfew and mandatory face masks after 36 passengers on a charter flight from Fiji test positive for COVID-19 upon arrival. The plane was the first international commercial flight to land in the country since March 2020. Kiribati reopened its borders on January 10th. 2022-01-19
India reports a world record of 6,148 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours due to the state of Bihar adding 3,951 backlogged deaths to their previous total of 5,478. This thereby brings Bihar's death toll to 9,429 and the nationwide death toll to 359,676. 2021-06-10
Bangladesh grants an emergency use authorization for the Sputnik V vaccine. 2021-04-27
Zimbabwe grants emergency use authorization for four COVID-19 vaccines, including China's CoronaVac and BBIBP-CorV, Russia's Sputnik V, and India's Covaxin. 2021-03-9
Manitoba reports its first two cases of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa in Winnipeg. 2021-03-2
Chinese authorities place 4.9 million people in Langfang under lockdown for the next seven days and also subject them to mass testing in an attempt to reduce the spread of COVID-19. 2021-01-12
Romania records 2,958 new cases, as well as 82 deaths. It is the highest jump of number of cases and deadliest day since the start of the pandemic. 2020-10-7