Chinese authorities extend the lockdown in Shanghai after more than 13,000 people test positive for COVID-19. 2022-04-5
Sri Lanka lifts a nearly six-week lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19 but continues to maintain a night curfew and a ban on public gatherings and parties as the number of cases declines. 2021-10-1
American Samoa reports its first case of COVID-19 in a resident who returned from travelling to the U.S. mainland and Hawaii earlier this week. 2021-09-17
The United Kingdom signs an agreement with Pfizer to secure 35 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine due to be delivered in the second half of 2022 as the government focuses on a "future-proof vaccine programme" to prevent any virus variants that are resistant to the vaccine. 2021-08-23
The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Education announces that it will vaccinate students aged 12 and 18. 2021-07-2
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces that all schools across the province will remain closed after April break and students will be forced to shift into online learning amid the rising number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. 2021-04-12
Brazil surpasses 10 million cases of COVID-19, being the second country to do so after the United States. 2021-02-18
The number of recovered patients in Indonesia increases by a record 5,981 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of recovered patients to 558,703. 2020-12-23
President Nicos Anastasiades announce a curfew from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. local time and orders bars, cafés, restaurants and cultural venues to close at 10:30 p.m. beginning November 6 and until the end of this month. 2020-11-4
Abu Dhabi crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed announces that a mobile drive through testing site has opened. 2020-03-28