Fijian Ministry of Health reports its first six cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant originally detected in India, all of them detected in quarantine.
Iran reports its first three cases of the Lineage B.1.351 variant first discovered in SouthAfrica.TheHealthMinistrywarnsof "harder daysahead"asitispredicted thatthenumberofdeathsduetoCOVID-19willincrease.
Portugal reports its first six cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant originally detected in India.
Fiji reports its first six cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant originally detected in India.