Iran reports its first three confirmed deaths related to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in people from the cities of Tabriz, Yazd and Shahrekord. 2022-01-15
France begins to require children over the age of 6 years to wear masks while indoors and also reduces the self-isolation period for fully vaccinated people to seven days and five days if a person has received a negative PCR or antigen test due to a record number of COVID-19 cases driven by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. 2022-01-3
The United Kingdom reports a record 138,831 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. 2021-12-28
Laotian capital Vientiane enters in a strict lockdown for two weeks as the city reported a record number of COVID-19 cases. Travel between the hard-hit provinces is also banned and anyone wishing to enter the city must be quarantined for 14 days. 2021-09-19
San Francisco mayor London Breed issues a mandate requiring proof of full vaccination in indoor public spaces, making San Francisco the first major U.S. city to do so. 2021-08-12
Prime Minister Jean Castex announces a new month-long lockdown in 16 departments across the country, including Île-de-France, Hauts-de-France, and parts of Normandy, beginning tomorrow night, in order to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases. 2021-03-18
Turkey approves the emergency use of the vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech. 2021-01-13
The government orders a ban on passenger flights from the United Kingdom from 6:00 a.m. today until at least January 1 due to the spread of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in the UK, with a case of the variant already having been reported in the Netherlands. 2020-12-20
Jenna Ellis, lawyer to President Trump, tests positive for COVID-19. This comes just two days after Rudy Giuliani, another of Trump's lawyers, also tested positive. 2020-12-8
Uganda reports its first confirmed case of COVID-19. The patient is a 36-year-old Ugandan male who recently arrived in the country on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Dubai. 2020-03-21