Pfizer and BioNTech say that their COVID-19 vaccine is 80% effective in young children. 2022-05-23
United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announces that he has tested positive for COVID-19. 2022-01-2
Spain announces that half of the population has been fully vaccinated, the third EU nation to do so after Malta and Hungary. 2021-07-19
Nouvelle-Aquitaine reports France's first case of the Lineage B.1.617 variant in a person who travelled from India. 2021-04-29
Rwanda begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using 392,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca and Pfizer–BioNTech vaccines. 2021-03-5
Illinois registers 15,415 new cases in the last 24 hours, a new single-day record, breaking a national record that was previously set by Florida on July 12, when that state reported 15,299 cases. 2020-11-13
AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot says that the vaccine results could be ready by the end of the year if trials resume. Clinical trials were temporarily suspended after a participant in the trials began to develop symptoms associated with transverse myelitis. 2020-09-10
Playwright Terrence McNally dies from complications of COVID-19 in Florida. 2020-03-24