Australia reports a record for the ninth consecutive day of 18,243 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 341,437. Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania all report record numbers of new cases. 2021-12-29
Canada reports its first cases of the Omicron variant in two people in Ontario who recently traveled to Nigeria. 2021-11-28
Hong Kong reports its first two cases of the Omicron variant in a man who had travelled from South Africa this month, and later in another man staying across the hall in the same quarantine hotel. 2021-11-26
Texas governor Greg Abbott signs an executive order prohibiting all entities in the state, including private companies, from enacting vaccine mandates. 2021-10-11
Serbian prime minister Ana Brnabić announces a five-day nationwide lockdown from tomorrow until March 21, which will close all non-essential shops. Students in the lower grades of primary schools will most likely switch to online classes from March 22 for at least one week. 2021-03-16
Ireland reaches a milestone of 500,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine administered. 2021-03-6
Armenia approves the use of the Sputnik V vaccine developed by Russia. 2021-02-1
Former President Flavio Cotti dies from COVID-19 at the age of 81. 2020-12-16
Germany reports 568 new deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the most since the start of the pandemic and bringing the nationwide death toll to 20,002. 2020-12-9