Sources: France 24
The Belgian government finalizes an agreement to buy 20,000 courses of Pfizer's Paxlovid COVID-19 drug and Merck & Co.'s Molnupiravir COVID-19 drug. 2022-01-3
Costa Rica issues a new mandate that would require children over the age of five years old to be vaccinated against COVID-19, making it one of the first countries to introduce such a mandate as part of its basic vaccination campaign. 2021-11-6
Alberta premier Jason Kenney declares a public health emergency and introduces vaccine passport system that will give businesses the choice between tough restrictions or demanding customers show proof of vaccination or a negative test due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases. 2021-09-15
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Sajid Javid tests positive for COVID-19, despite having been fully vaccinated, one day after he met with Prime Minister Boris Johnson. 2021-07-17
Beginning December 1, Taiwan will require almost all visitors to have negative COVID-19 tests before arriving in the country due to an increase in imported cases. The government will also increase the number of places where people must wear masks. 2020-11-18
The United States surpasses eight million cases of COVID-19. 2020-10-16
Malaysia reports 432 new cases in the last 24 hours, a new record of daily infections since the beginning of the outbreak. 2020-10-5
China reports 127 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. From that, 123 of them were locally transmitted which includes 112 in Xinjiang and 11 in Liaoning. It is the highest number of cases reported since March 5. 2020-07-31
Tenor Plácido Domingo announces he has tested positive for COVID-19. 2020-03-22
Qatar announces 238 new cases of confirmed COVID-19 cases in a single day. 2020-03-11