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Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh tested positive for COVID-19 while leading his country delegation in Cairo.
2022-02-21

India reports its first confirmed death related to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a 73-year-old man who died last week at a hospital in Udaipur, Rajasthan.
2022-01-5

India surpasses 300,000 deaths from COVID-19, becoming the third country to do so after the United States and Brazil. India recorded its last 100,000 deaths in less than a month. Experts warn that the real number of deaths could be much higher as many are not officially recorded; some models speculate that about a million people may have actually died.
2021-05-24

India reports a record 3,780 deaths from COVID-19 during the past 24 hours and 382,315 new cases. The World Health Organization says that nearly half of the worldwide cases reported last week were from India.
2021-05-5

Zimbabwe grants emergency use authorization for four COVID-19 vaccines, including China's CoronaVac and BBIBP-CorV, Russia's Sputnik V, and India's Covaxin.
2021-03-9

India approves the emergency use of the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, becoming the third country in the world to do so after the United Kingdom and Argentina.
2021-01-1

The Indian government announces that the country will speed up their reviews of vaccines developed by Pfizer and AstraZeneca.
2020-12-7

India surpasses nine million total cases of COVID-19, becoming the second country in the world to reach that milestone after the United States.
2020-11-20

India extends its lockdown, which was set to expire today, until May 31.
2020-05-17

​India goes under a nationwide lockdown to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
2020-03-25