It is announced that Moderna will build a vaccine manufacturing facility in Kenya to produce mRNA vaccines, including its COVID-19 vaccine. 2022-03-7
Vanuatuan prime minister Bob Loughman confirms that two Vanuatuan citizens who were repatriated from New Caledonia have the Delta variant and urges residents to get vaccinated. 2021-11-8
Egypt receives their first shipment of 261,000 doses of the single-dose Janssen COVID-19 vaccine. 2021-08-9
Despite continuous records of new cases, the government rules out any possibility of a nationwide lockdown, adding that their directive would be on targeted lockdowns instead. 2021-06-24
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirms that three members of a family in Auckland who tested positive for COVID-19 are infected with the UK variant and that this is not connected to any managed isolation or quarantine facilities. 2021-02-15
In defiance to the Chamber of Deputies, the Czech government re-declares a state of emergency for the next two weeks in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19, especially because of the emergence of the more contagious B.1.1.7 variant first detected in the United Kingdom. 2021-02-14
Los Angeles County reports their first case of the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a man who traveled to the United Kingdom and is currently in quarantine in Oregon. 2021-01-16
Alberta reports a record 30 new deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the provincial death toll to 790. 2020-12-17
India reports more than 77,000 new cases in the last 24 hours, taking the nationwide total to more than 3.38 million, the highest single day spike for the country for the second consecutive day, and the highest single day caseload in the world apart from the United States. 2020-08-28