High schools in Greece reopen after five months of closure, with precautions such as wearing masks and COVID-19 testing for all teachers and students twice per week. 2021-04-12
Prime Minister Boyko Borisov announces the suspension of the use of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine following the death of a 57-year-old woman from Plovdiv after she received her dose. 2021-03-12
President Volodymyr Zelenskyi receives his first dose of Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine. 2021-03-2
Armenia approves the use of the Sputnik V vaccine developed by Russia. 2021-02-1
President Vladimir Putin orders the country to start a large-scale vaccination by late next week. Teachers and doctors are expected to be the first to receive the Sputnik V vaccine. 2020-12-2
In a televised address, Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio confirms the country's first case of COVID-19, a 37-year-old man who had recently travelled back from France. 2020-03-31
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence says FEMA will send 4,000 ventilators to New York in the next 48 hours. The state now has at least 20,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19. 2020-03-24
Algeria confirms its first case of the coronavirus. The patient is an Italian man who arrived in the country a week ago. 2020-02-25