Portal:Current events/2022 February 4

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Austria
      • Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen signs a law that makes the country the first in the European Union to mandate that people over the age of 18 years receive the COVID-19 vaccine after the Bundesrat voted 47–12 yesterday to approve the law. (The Guardian)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
      • Russia reports a record for the 15th consecutive day of 168,201 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 12.45 million. (Interfax)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey
      • Turkey reports a record 111,157 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. (Hürriyet Daily News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • The United States surpasses 900,000 deaths from COVID-19. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Whaling in Iceland
  • Iceland announces it will end the practice of whaling by 2024, citing the decreasing price of whale meat. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• Politics of Montenegro, 2022 Montenegrin crisis
  • The Government of Zdravko Krivokapić is ousted after a motion of no confidence passes 43–11. (Deutsche Welle)

Sports

• 2022 Winter Olympics
  • The 2022 Winter Olympics begin in Beijing. (CNN)
  • Dutch journalist Sjoerd den Daas is interrupted and dragged away by a Chinese security guard as he broadcasts live from the ongoing Olympics. (Newsweek)
• Iran–United States relations
  • An American visa is denied for an Iranian national wrestling team that had a coach who advocated Death to America. (Fox News)