History of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Part 3)

Historical Events

Events 201 - 300 of 404

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2020-09-02 Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi tests positive for COVID-19 and is later hospitalized

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2020-09-03 Actor Robert Pattinson tests positive for COVID-19, shutting down production of the Batman film he is shooting

2020-09-03 More healthcare workers have died of COVID-19 in Mexico than any other country - 1320 deaths vs 1077 (US) and 649 (UK) according to Amnesty International [1]
2020-09-07 India overtakes Brazil to record the second-highest number of COVID-19 cases with 4.2 million
2020-09-09 Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 900,000 with the US the most deaths at 190,589
2020-09-14 Israel becomes the 1st country to announce a second national lockdown due to COVID-19, for 3 weeks
2020-09-14 WHO reports largest-ever one-day COVID-19 case rise of 307,930, daily death toll of 5,500, overall death total is 917,417
2020-09-21 Canadian province of Quebec expands restrictions, declaring it is in a second COVID-19 wave as cases across the country average 1,000 a day
2020-09-22 America's COVID-19 death toll passes 200,000, more than any other country
2020-09-28 COVID-19 recorded global death toll passes 1 million with over 33 million known cases (Johns Hopkins)
2020-09-30 Spanish government orders a COVID-19 lockdown in Madrid and surrounding areas after a rapid rise in cases
2020-10-01 US White House aide Hope Hicks tests positive for COVID-19

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2020-10-02 US President Donald Trump announces via twitter that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19, President hospitalized later that day

2020-10-05 India COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000, with 6.6 million known cases, 3rd highest death toll in the world behind the US and Brazil
2020-10-05 US President Donald Trump leaves Walter Reed National Military Medical Center while still infectious with COVID-19 and returns to the White House
2020-10-05 WHO estimates 10% of world's population may have been infected with COVID-19, more than 20 times the number of confirmed cases
2020-10-11 India records more than 7 million cases of COVID-19
2020-10-12 China announces it will test entire city of Qingdao, 9 million people, for COVID-19 within five days after a dozen cases discovered

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2020-10-12 UK PM Boris Johnson announces a new three-tier system for COVID-19 restrictions as cases surge

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2020-10-14 French president Emmanuel Macron announces a public health emergency and a curfew of 9 pm for nine cities due to surge in COVID-19 cases

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2020-12-15 UK newspaper "The Sun" publishes recording of Tom Cruise berating his film crew for breaking COVID-19 protocols

2020-12-17 French President Emanuel Macron tests positive for COVID-19, sending other European leaders into isolation
2020-12-17 King Carl XVI Gustaf says Swedish authorities have failed in their response to COVID-19, criticizing the country's controversial anti-lockdown strategy
2020-12-18 International body Covax, established to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to low and middle income countries, announces deals with vaccine manufacturers and method for countries to share excess vaccines
2020-12-18 Moderna COVID-19 vaccine granted emergency authorization by US Food and Drug Administration
2020-12-18 South Africa announces detection of new variant of COVID-19, called 501.V2, which is driving a second wave of infections

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2020-12-18 US Vice President Mike Pence receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine live on TV

2020-12-20 European countries begin closing their borders to the UK after news of a faster-spreading variant of COVID-19 across London and the south-east
2020-12-21 US begins vaccinating for COVID-19 using the Moderna vaccine

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2020-12-21 US President-elect Joe Biden receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine live on TV

2020-12-31 WHO grants the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine emergency authorization, paving the way for worldwide distribution
2021-01-04 1st Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines given to the general public with 82 year old Brian Pinker in the UK first to be jabbed [1]
2021-01-04 Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces new national lockdown for England following Scotland, as COVID-19 variant spreads rapidly with hospitalizations now higher than the first wave
2021-01-05 Daily new cases of COVID-19 top 60,000 in the UK as data reveals one in fifty in England had COVID-19 within the last week
2021-01-07 Arizona is now the COVID-19 “hotspot of the world" according to local health officials with an average of 118.3 new cases per 100,000 people
2021-01-07 WHO warns Europe needs to do more to "flatten the steep vertical line" of COVID-19 cases and control the spread of the new variant, with 230 million already living under lockdown

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2021-01-08 Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declares a state of emergency for Tokyo and surrounding areas after COVID-19 cases surge to their highest level

2021-01-09 China places two cities, Shijiazhuang and Xingtai, under lockdown after over 130 cases of COVID-19 reported
2021-01-11 Ireland becomes the country with the world's highest COVID-19 infection rate after a dramatic surge results in seven-day rolling average of 1,394 cases per million
2021-01-11 The king of Malaysia, Al-Sultan Abdullah declares a state of emergency over COVID-19 till 1 August, suspending parliament and giving the government new powers
2021-01-14 Brazilian governor of Amazonas state Wilson Lima says their COVID-19 surge is now as bad as April 2020, with hospitals running out of oxygen and patients ventilated manually

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2021-01-14 Pope Francis, 84, and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine

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2021-01-15 Global death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic passes 2 million (true total likely much higher)

2021-01-16 India begin the vaccination of its 1.3 billion people for COVID-19
2021-01-18 Brazil begins vaccinations for COVID-19 with the world's second-highest death toll at 209,000
2021-01-19 The US death toll from COVID-19 passes 400,000
2021-01-28 Mexico's COVID-19 death toll becomes the world's third highest, overtaking India's at 155,145 [1]
2021-02-01 Wildfires ignite on the outskirts of Perth, Australia, forcing evacuations amid five-day COVID-19 lockdown
2021-02-02 Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine deemed 91.6% effective according to analysis published in "The Lancet" [1]
2021-02-08 South Africa halts rollout of Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine after research into the South African variant showed no protection against mild and moderate illness
2021-02-09 WHO team investigating origin of COVID-19 in Wuhan say it is "extremely unlikely" that it leaked from a local research lab [1]
2021-02-11 California's COVID-19 death toll overtakes New York's, reaching 45,496 amid first sign of falling infection numbers (Johns Hopkins)
2021-02-11 UK Kent COVID-19 strain set "to sweep the world" and become the dominant strain globally according to UK scientist Sharon Peacock after strain detected in over 50 countries (later named Alpha)
2021-02-11 World's second oldest person French nun Sister André' celebrates her 117th birthday after surviving COVID-19 in Toulon
2021-02-17 South Africa, Africa's worst-affected country begins COVID-19 vaccinations with the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine in Cape Town
2021-02-21 WHO pleads with Tanzania to start reporting COVID-19 cases amid fears of a hidden epidemic in the country
2021-02-22 US death toll from COVID-19 passes 500,000, higher than US deaths in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War combined. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hold a candle-lighting ceremony outside the White House and say "we must not grow numb to the sorrow".
2021-02-23 Covid-19 antibodies survey in Nigeria suggests 4 million people have had the virus in Lagos state alone, more than officially recorded for whole of Africa [1]
2021-02-27 US authorizes its third COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson, a one-shot vaccine