Health Canada approves the usage of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11 years. 2021-11-19
Beijing imposes new restrictions on conferences and events, recommending that both be held remotely and also recommending that in-person conferences be managed as a "closed loop" after the city reported six new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. 2021-11-11
Angela Merkel's cabinet approves a plan to require travellers over the age of 12 who have not been vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 to show a negative COVID-19 test result regardless of whether they are travelling by airplane, car or train. People travelling to Germany from "virus variant areas" will also require a negative test result, even if they have been vaccinated or have recovered from COVID-19. These rules will be in effect beginning on August 1. 2021-07-30
South Africa reports its first four cases of the Lineage B.1.617.2 variant in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, where all of these had a travel history to India. 2021-05-8
Japan receives its first shipment of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. 2021-04-30
Lebanon receives its first shipment of 28,500 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from Belgium. 2021-02-13
India reports 1,133 deaths from COVID-19, the highest single-day total. The death toll in the country reaches 72,775. 2020-09-8
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf orders all non-life-sustaining businesses in the state to close physical locations to slow the spread of the coronavirus. 2020-03-19