South Korea ends their COVID-19 restrictions two years after they were imposed. However, the mask mandate will remain in place. 2022-04-18
Argentina imposes a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination certificate for people over the age of 13 years to participate in many types of activities, both indoors and outdoors. 2022-01-1
New Zealand reports a record 222 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. 2021-11-16
Singapore reports a record 2,268 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 94,043. 2021-09-29
Russia reports a record for the second consecutive day of 669 deaths from COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 135,214. 2021-06-30
Malaysia reports a record for the fifth consecutive day of 9,020 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 558,534. The country also reports a record 98 deaths in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 2,650. 2021-05-29
The Food and Drug Administration approves the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine for emergency use in the country. 2021-01-14
Portugal reports records for both daily counts of new cases and deaths, with 10,556 new cases and 156 deaths, bringing the nationwide cumulative totals to 507,108 confirmed cases and 8,236 deaths. 2021-01-13
Taiwan reports their first locally transmitted case since April 12 after an unidentified patient tested positive for COVID-19. 2020-12-22
Kyrgyzstan announces the addition of thousands of cases and hundreds of deaths to its COVID-19 tallies, describing the corresponding pneumonia-related cases, which had not been confirmed by tests, as most likely linked to the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus. Neighboring Kazakhstan announces it will do the same starting next month. 2020-07-17