Sources: CP24
The Israeli Health Ministry confirms three cases of the Omicron BA.2.75 variant in travelers abroad. 2022-07-17
China issues stay-at home orders for hundreds of thousands of people in Yan'an due to the spread of COVID-19 cases, which also resulted in a lockdown in Xi'an, the country's largest lockdown since last year. 2021-12-28
Kenya's Pharmacy and Poisons Board grants emergency use authorization for the Moderna and Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV vaccines. 2021-08-19
GlaxoSmithKline and the German biotech firm CureVac sign an agreement worth 150 million euros ($180.7 million) to develop a vaccine to counter many variants of SARS-CoV-2. The vaccine, which is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to be introduced in 2022. 2021-02-3
Lockdowns in Brisbane and the Northern Beaches of Sydney are lifted as the number of cases in those areas drop. 2021-01-11
The government declares Paris and Marseilles as "active zones", or high-risk zones. The move allows local authorities in those designated areas to impose restrictions. 2020-08-14
Brazil surpasses two million cases. The death toll reaches 76,000. 2020-07-16
The National Health Service announces that two more Nightingale field hospitals will be built at Harrogate Convention Centre in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, and the University of the West of England in Bristol. 2020-04-2
Sharif University publishes a study about the number of possible casualties, warning that it could reach millions of deaths if a full quarantine is not imposed. 2020-03-17
Moldova bans all foreigners from entering the country via plane who have been to any country with confirmed cases of COVID-19. 2020-03-10