Sources: Al Jazeera
The number of deaths due to COVID-19 in Africa surpasses 200,000. 2021-09-7
Brazil surpasses 400,000 COVID-19 deaths, becoming the second country to do so after the United States. 2021-04-29
São Paulo Senator Major Olímpio dies from COVID-19, becoming the third member of the Brazilian Senate to die from the virus. 2021-03-18
Japan begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 beginning with 40,000 health workers. 2021-02-17
Captain Tom, a British Army veteran who served in World War II and who donated to charities during the lockdown, dies from COVID-19 at the age of 100. 2021-02-2
Jenna Ellis, lawyer to President Trump, tests positive for COVID-19. This comes just two days after Rudy Giuliani, another of Trump's lawyers, also tested positive. 2020-12-8
Brazil reports a record 33,274 new cases of COVID-19 and 956 more deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 498,440 and 28,834 deaths, the fourth highest in the world. 2020-05-30
The death toll from COVID-19 in the United States rises by 2,371 in a single day to 30,800, the highest number of COVID-19 linked deaths reported in any country in a single day, as total cases rise to 635,000. 2020-04-15
The Department of Health and Social Care reports 684 more deaths from COVID-19, the highest daily death toll in the country to date, bringing the country's death toll to 3,605 and 38,168 confirmed cases. 2020-04-3
Uzbekistan confirms the Central Asian country's first case of COVID-19, an Uzbek citizen who had recently returned from France. All schools, colleges and universities are ordered to close for three weeks, while all public events are cancelled. 2020-03-15