Sources: MarketWatch
The United States reports its first case of the Omicron variant in a person who travelled from South Africa to California. 2021-12-1
The United Kingdom eases its quarantine requirements for fully vaccinated travellers from the United States and European Union countries other than France where most of them are in the "amber list" category in order to reunite family and friends whose loved ones live abroad. Travellers will still need to take either a lateral flow or PCR test before their departure, and a PCR test on the second day after their arrival. 2021-08-2
India surpasses 400,000 deaths from COVID-19, becoming the third country to do so after the U.S. and Brazil. 2021-07-2
The United States government purchases 200 million doses of the vaccine produced by Moderna. 2021-06-16
AstraZeneca announces that the efficacy rating of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate has been lowered to 76%, following new analyses of the trial run in the United States. Earlier in the week, the company had been criticized for advertising its vaccine with a 79% efficacy rating using what critics claimed was outdated data. 2021-03-25
The United States reports a record 4,197 new deaths in the past 24 hours. 2021-01-12
The number of confirmed worldwide COVID-19 cases surpasses 50 million. The United States remains the country with the most confirmed cases, accounting for 20% of all cases worldwide. 2020-11-8
India surpasses eight million cases of COVID-19, becoming the second country to pass the milestone after the United States. 2020-10-29
India surpasses Brazil as the country with the second-most cases in the world, behind the United States. India reported 90,802 cases in the past 24 hours and 1,016 deaths, recording the single largest increase of cases in the world in almost a month. 2020-09-7