Taiwan announces that it will end the mandatory quarantine of visitors on October 13 and will also restore temporarily suspended visa-free travel for countries that had a relevant agreement with the island. 2022-09-29
The Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba clarifies that the man thought to be Israel's first Omicron death had actually had the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, following the final laboratory results regarding his condition. 2021-12-22
Ukraine reports a record 26,071 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 2.85 million. 2021-10-28
The Government of Indonesia announces an extension of emergency community restrictions to 15 regencies and cities outside Java and Bali beginning on July 12 amid an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases outside Java and Bali. 2021-07-9
The United Kingdom records no daily deaths from COVID-19 within 28 days of a positive test for the first time since March 2020. 2021-06-1
Quebec reports Canada's first death from a vaccination. The death has been linked to a blood clot after a 54-year-old woman received the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and died due to cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. 2021-04-27
President Cyril Ramaphosa announces that South Africa's alert level will be lowered to level one effective midnight following a decrease in the number of COVID-19 cases. 2021-02-28
Peru surpasses one million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fifth Latin American country to surpass the milestone after Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico. 2020-12-22
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week changed its COVID-19 testing guidelines to say that people who've been in close contact with someone known to have COVID-19 but are asymptomatic now "do not necessarily" need to get tested. Health experts are expressing alarm over this revision since, for example, up to 50 percent of all COVID-19 transmissions are due to people who do not exhibit symptoms of the disease. 2020-08-26