Sources: Xinhua News Agency
Slovakia imposes an overnight curfew from 8:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. local time, in an attempt to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The curfew will last until at least March 19. 2021-03-3
South Africa begins its vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using a vaccine from Johnson & Johnson, which has not yet been authorized worldwide. President Cyril Ramaphosa, government officials, and health workers are among the first to receive the vaccine. 2021-02-17
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he is in "good health and recovering" after testing positive for COVID-19 in late January. 2021-02-4
Ukraine surpasses 700,000 total cases of COVID-19 after a record 16,294 new cases are reported in the past 24 hours. 2020-11-28
New York governor Andrew Cuomo announces that 826 people have been hospitalized with COVID-19, the highest number since July 15. 2020-10-10
Beijing closes all schools, locks down several residential estates and imposes a partial travel ban, urging residents not to leave the city, after 27 more COVID-19 cases are confirmed in the city, bringing the total to 106 new cases in the last five days. The new outbreak is linked to the Xinfadi Market. 2020-06-16
Russia reports a record 10,633 new cases of COVID-19 and 58 more deaths from the virus in the last 24 hours, bringing the country's total cases to 134,686 and 1,280 deaths. Moscow's mayor Sergei Sobyanin says the peak has still not been reached, warning residents to remain indoors. 2020-05-3
The Department of Health and Social Care reports 393 more deaths from COVID-19, the highest daily death toll in the country to date, bringing the country's death toll to 1,789 and 25,150 cases. 2020-03-31
New Zealand's Ministry of Health reports its first death from COVID-19, a woman in her 70s. 2020-03-29
The Gambia reports its first confirmed case of COVID-19, a female patient in her 20s who recently returned from the United Kingdom. The patient is in isolation at a clinic in Fajara. 2020-03-18