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Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark tests positive for COVID-19.
2021-12-15

Russia reports a record 41,335 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 8,755,930.
2021-11-6

The Irish Department of Health announces that people aged 80 or older and residents of nursing homes aged 65 and older will receive a booster MRNA COVID-19 vaccine regardless of which vaccine they first received. The booster rollout will begin at the end of September or the start of October.
2021-09-8

The French government announces that beginning on August 9, the parliament-approved "Health Pass" will be compulsory for people who want to visit a café, gym, bar or other public place, as well as travel on an airplane or by inter-city rail. However, the legislation needs to be validated by the Constitutional Council on August 5.
2021-07-28

South Korea begins a mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine, with the first doses administered to residents at about 200 nursing homes across the country.
2021-02-26

Bavaria detects a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in 35 newly-infected patients in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which is different from the strain originating from the United Kingdom.
2021-01-18

President Trump says that he will invoke the Defense Production Act of 1950 to provide vaccine doses if necessary.
2020-12-8

The United States Department of Health and Human Services and the Trump administration announce a deal with Walgreens and CVS to provide COVID-19 vaccines to the elderly and staff in nursing homes.
2020-10-16

In New Caledonia, the largest pro-independence party Caledonian Union agrees to postpone the referendum on independence from France due to COVID-19 pandemic concerns. Anti-independence parties welcome the decision.
2020-05-31

Annie Glenn, widow of astronaut John Glenn and disability rights advocate, dies of COVID-19 in a nursing home in Minnesota.
2020-05-19