Sources: KIRO-TV
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
Pakistan receives 2.5 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from the United States, facilitated through the COVAX initiative, UNICEF and the Government of Pakistan. 2021-07-2
U.S. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announces that the Biden administration will ship 2 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Peru and 2.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to Pakistan. Additionally, the United States will also send vaccine doses to Bangladesh. 2021-06-29
The United States surpasses 600,000 deaths from COVID-19, even as daily deaths are reported to be decreasing. 2021-06-15
Moderna begins testing its vaccine in babies and children aged six months to 11 years in the U.S. and Canada. 2021-03-16
The CDC says it has administered 8 million vaccine doses in the United States and distributed an additional 25.5 million doses. 2021-01-11
The number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in one day in the United States surpasses 100,000, according to the COVID Tracking Project. 2020-12-2
The Food and Drug Administration approves remdesivir to treat COVID-19 in hospitalized patients. The drug, manufactured by the pharmaceutical company Gilead under the brand name Veklury, is the first fully approved COVID-19 treatment in the United States. 2020-10-22
The United States surpasses three million cases of COVID-19 and sets a daily record of 62,021 new cases. 2020-07-8
The death toll from COVID-19 in the United States rises by 2,228 in a single day, the highest number of COVID-19 linked deaths reported in any country in a single day, as total cases rise to over 600,000. 2020-04-14