The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces the end of its international adoption program after suspending the program during the COVID-19 pandemic. 2024-09-6
Paris begins to implement mandatory outdoor mask wearing for people over the age of 11 years. This comes as France reports a substantial increase in new cases of the Omicron variant nationwide. 2021-12-31
The Northern Ireland Executive votes to introduce a COVID-19 vaccine passport beginning next month, which will contain a person's vaccination status or negative COVID-19 test result, and will be used to enter bars, restaurants and pubs. 2021-11-17
Health minister Carla Vizzotti reports that Argentina has applied nearly 32 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Argentina has so far reported 4.9 million cases and over 105,000 deaths from COVID-19. 2021-07-31
Bangladesh reports a record 15,192 new cases and 247 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1.179 million and the nationwide death toll to 19,521. 2021-07-26
Japan reports its first five cases of the "double mutant" Lineage B.1.617 variant first detected in India. 2021-04-22
Thirty-nine residents are confirmed to have died from COVID-19 at a single nursing home in Denver, Pennsylvania. 2021-01-18
Uruguay reports a new single-day record of 528 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 9,708. 2020-12-13
Ontario reports a new single-day record of 1,581 cases, bringing the total number of cases in the province to 92,761. 2020-11-14
Due to a spike in cases, the government announces a total lockdown in Santiago. 2020-05-13