COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism2021-11-1
AstraZeneca-Oxford developers say that their vaccine candidate is effective against the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2. 2021-02-5
Vietnam reports their first two locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in 55 days in Hải Dương and Quảng Ninh provinces, with one of them linked to the B.1.1.7 variant. 2021-01-28
Bavaria detects a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in 35 newly-infected patients in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which is different from the strain originating from the United Kingdom. 2021-01-18
Argentina also reports their first case of the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a man who travelled from the United Kingdom in late December and later tested positive. 2021-01-16
Vaccine developer Pfizer announces that lab studies have concluded that the joint Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine remains effective against mutation variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including Variant of Concern 202012-01 and the 501.V2 variant. 2021-01-8
Brazil detects their first two cases of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 that originated in the United Kingdom. 2020-12-31
California reports its first case of a more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 from the United Kingdom in a patient from Southern California. 2020-12-30
In Beijing, authorities arrest Xu Zhangrun, a law professor who published essays strongly criticizing Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping over censored academia on the COVID-19 pandemic and accusing him of ruling "tyrannically." 2020-07-6