U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the Middle District of Florida voids the Biden administration's mask mandate on airplanes and public transportation. Most U.S. airlines including Alaska Airlines and United Airlines subsequently end their mask mandates due to the ruling. 2022-04-18
Morocco extends its nightly curfew nationwide to from 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and restricts the operation of all businesses and tourist hubs in Casablanca, Agadir and Marrakesh to essential travel and those who have been vaccinated in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19. 2021-08-3
Vietnam reports its first locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in 35 days, in four members of a family from Hà Nam Province and one person from Ho Chi Minh City. 2021-04-29
Iran reports a record 496 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 70,070. 2021-04-26
Fiji begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine donated by the COVAX initiative. Ten frontline workers are the first to receive doses of the vaccine. 2021-03-10
Lesotho receives its first shipment of 36,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative. 2021-03-4
Switzerland reports its first case of the Brazilian P.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2. 2021-02-9
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam says that he will increase enforcement of masks and social distancing as cases in the Hampton Roads area spike. 2020-07-14
Due to a spike in cases, the government announces a total lockdown in Santiago. 2020-05-13