Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam announces a travel ban from eight countries with high SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant cases from January 8 to January 21. 2022-01-6
The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) has fully implemented nationwide, the Alert Level System (ALS) formally replacing the previous community quarantine system that had been in place since March 2020. 2021-11-20
Florida has reported more than 10,000 cases of the Lineage B.1.1.7, Lineage P.1, and Lineage B.1.351 variants since spring break. 2021-05-9
Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan confirms that the Republic has detected the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from the United Kingdom as the country reports more than 1,000 for the first time in two months. 2020-12-25
California reports 52,281 new cases and 379 deaths in the past 24 hours, both a new single-day record for the state and nationwide since the beginning of the pandemic. 2020-12-17
The number of new cases in Iran rises by a record 13,961 over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total to 908,346 cases. 2020-11-26
Spain reports 368 new fatalities in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day number since late April, as many parts of the country report a record number of deaths, exceeding levels reported in the first wave of the pandemic. 2020-11-5
The President of the Japan Football Association and deputy Olympic Committee chief Kozo Tashima tests positive for COVID-19. Japan insists the 2020 Summer Olympics will still go ahead as planned. 2020-03-17