Sources: Nippon.com
China decides to making regular COVID-19 testing mandatory for its citizens with setting up thousands of permanent PCR testing stations, with 9,000 already completed in Shanghai alone, as authorities aim to "normalise" tough pandemic controls even after the current round of lockdowns end. 2022-05-6
The Japanese government announces that the quasi-state of emergency measures will be expanded to 18 more prefectures including Hokkaido, Osaka, and Fukuoka from January 27 to February 20 amid the spread of the Omicron variant. 2022-01-25
Quebec reports its first eight cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant first detected in India. 2021-04-21
Japan records a new single-day record of 3,041 cases. The Japan Self-Defense Forces are deployed to Asahikawa, Hokkaido, where hospitals are facing shortages of medical staff to treat COVID-19 patients. 2020-12-12
New Jersey reports 4,540 new cases over the past 24 hours, a new single-day record. 2020-11-15
England enters a four-week lockdown, with all non-essential shops, pubs, restaurants, hospitality venues, places of worship, and leisure facilities closing until at least December 2. All indoor cross-household mixing is banned, and people can only meet one person from another household outside. Unlike the first lockdown, schools and universities will remain open. 2020-11-5
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey extends the state's mask mandate and safer-at-home order to October 2. 2020-08-27
Roberto Stella, the president of the medical guild in Varese, Lombardy, dies at the age of 67 after contracting the virus. 2020-03-10