Areas in the Jinshan and Minhang districts of Shanghai are elevated to medium-risk areas of COVID-19. 2022-03-13
France imposes mandatory mask wearing in all indoor venues and outdoor Christmas markets, even when a Health Pass is required for an event, due to an increase in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. 2021-11-26
Chancellor Angela Merkel receives her second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. However, Merkel received the Moderna vaccine for her second dose rather than the AstraZeneca vaccine. 2021-06-22
Director of the Pan American Health Organization Carissa F. Etienne announces that Latin America and the Caribbean have surpassed one million deaths caused by COVID-19. 2021-05-21
Victoria closes its land border with New South Wales due to an increase in COVID-19 cases, after several months of open borders. Meanwhile, New South Wales makes wearing masks in public mandatory, while also easing restrictions for southern suburbs of the Northern Beaches as the number of cases in those areas decrease. 2021-01-2
Iran reports 8,932 new cases, its single-day record, pushing the case total to 637,712. 2020-11-3
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson postpones lockdown easing in England, for at least two weeks, after an increase in coronavirus cases. 2020-07-31
Florida reports two consecutive days of 2,000-plus new COVID-19 cases as more counties reopen their beaches. Miami's mayor says this information does not include data from Memorial Day weekend and the George Floyd protests. 2020-06-14