Peruvian President Pedro Castillo announces that the Peruvian government has reached a agreement with Russia to create a plant that would produce a Sputnik V vaccine in the country. 2021-09-6
Indonesia reports a record 555 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, 137 of them from Central Java, thereby bringing the national death toll to 60,582. 2021-07-4
Belgium reports its first cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant in a group of Indian nursing students who travelled from Paris. 2021-04-22
Fiji receives its first shipment of 12,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative. 2021-03-6
President Joko Widodo receives his second dose of the Sinovac Biotech vaccine. 2021-01-27
Bavarian Ministers-President Markus Söder announces that starting from next Monday, people will be required to wear FFP2 masks while travelling on public transport and when in retail shops in order to improve safety on these areas. 2021-01-12
Prime Minister Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini dies at the age of 52 after weeks of hospitalization due to COVID-19. He is the first sitting national head of government to die as a result of the virus. 2020-12-13
Toronto reports 761 cases, a new single-day record in the city. 2020-12-1
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says that the vaccine trials for Pfizer might have results by October. 2020-09-3
Hong Kong government has reversed a day-old total ban on restaurants serving dine-in customers that was introduced to control the spread of COVID-19, and publishes new guidelines that allow restaurants could operate dine-in facilities but only during the day, at 50% capacity, and with no more than two people at a table. 2020-07-30