King Felipe VI tests positive for COVID-19, with mild symptoms. 2022-02-9
Zimbabwe announces a nine-hour curfew and compulsory 14-day quarantine for anyone arriving in the country, to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant, becoming the first country in southern Africa to enact such restrictions. 2021-12-1
Denmark becomes the first country in the European Union to lift all of its COVID-19-related restrictions, with the lifting of the requirement to show a digital pass in order to enter nightclubs, as the country no longer considers COVID-19 to be a "socially critical" disease and the vaccination rate has surpassed 80%. 2021-09-10
Peru begins vaccinations for people aged 30 in Lima, Callao, and the Ica Region. 2021-09-5
Vietnam reports a record 9,716 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 265,464. 2021-08-14
Kerala announces a total weekend lockdown on July 31 and August 1 due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. 2021-07-29
Fiji reports a record 1,405 new cases and six deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the national total of cases to 16,471 and the national total of deaths to 85. 2021-07-17
Argentina reports records of 35,543 new cases of COVID-19 and 745 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the total number of cases to 3.37 million and the death toll to 71,771. 2021-05-18
The Czech Republic reports a record 16,329 new cases in the past 24 hours as the positivity rate reaches a new record of 48.5%. 2020-12-30
Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping visits Wuhan, the epicentre and origin of the pandemic, after an unprecedented lockdown of the central city of 11 million people. 2020-03-10