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Kosovo receives a shipment of 503,100 doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine donated from the United States through the COVAX initiative.
2021-09-6

The Food and Drug Administration gives full approval to the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first vaccine in the U.S. to be granted full licensure and thereby giving businesses, schools and universities more confidence to adopt vaccine mandates.
2021-08-23

Sri Lanka receives its first shipment of 1.5 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from the United States.
2021-07-16

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg quarantines for 14 days after a member of his security detail tests positive for COVID-19.
2021-02-8

The United States begins administering their first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York, becomes the first person in the country to receive the vaccine outside of a clinical trial.
2020-12-14

Brazil surpasses six million total confirmed cases of COVID-19, becoming the third country to do so after India and the United States.
2020-11-20

Vanuatu reports its first case of COVID-19 after a citizen who was repatriated from the United States tested positive while in quarantine.
2020-11-11

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

India reports the highest single-day record of more than 62,000 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the country's total to 2,025,409. This total makes India the third country to pass two million cases, after the United States and Brazil.
2020-08-7

Wyoming's Governor Mark Gordon reports the state's first death from COVID-19 in Johnson County, meaning all 50 U.S. states have now recorded a fatality from the virus.
2020-04-13