High-risk establishments such as bars and gyms will be closed from January 7, while dining in restaurants will be banned after 6 p.m. 2022-01-6
The Public Health Agency of Sweden temporarily suspends the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine pending a review from the European Medicines Agency following reports on abnormal blood clotting in vaccinated people. 2021-03-16
Japan's GDP contracts 4.8% in 2020, which is the first annual economic contraction since 2009 due to the impact of the pandemic. 2021-02-15
Johnson & Johnson requests emergency approval for its vaccine from the Food and Drug Administration. 2021-02-4
Russia reports 20,582 new infections in the past 24 hours, its single-day record since the pandemic began, bringing the cumulative nationwide total to 1.73 million cases. 2020-11-6
In Italy, the military is deployed to the city of Bergamo, Lombardy, the Italian city worst hit by COVID-19, to collect and transport the bodies of dead residents to crematoriums in other cities, as Bergamo’s authorities say their facilities can no longer process the large number of fatalities. The city's mayor Giorgio Gori says the true number of dead could be much higher than what's been reported. 2020-03-19
A total of 16 U.S. states have closed all of their schools as of this date. 2020-03-14