Portal:Current events/2021 April 4

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • Taliban insurgency, 2021 Afghanistan attacks
    • Three security personnel are killed in a car bombing near Kabul. The Taliban claims responsibility for the attack. (Al Arabiya)
  • Afghan peace process
    • President Ashraf Ghani is expected to offer a three-phase peace roadmap, which includes a ceasefire and agreement, during a proposed meeting in Turkey. (Khaama Press)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Militants ambush a convoy carrying counter-terrorism judge Aftab Afridi, killing him and three members of his family, in Swabi, KP, Pakistan. (AA)

Disasters and accidents

• Cyclone Seroja
  • At least 80 people are killed in Flores island, Indonesia, and 21 more in Dili, East Timor, by flash floods and landslides. (BBC News)
• Eleven people are killed and 19 others are injured after a truck and a passenger bus collide on the G15 Shenyang–Haikou Expressway in Jiangsu province, China. (South China Morning Post) (USA Today)
• An explosion and fire aboard a boat injures at least eight people, some of them critically, on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales, Australia. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Twelve people are killed and four remain missing after a fishing boat sank in Zhoushan sea, Zhejiang, China. (Xinhua)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in India
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Maharashtra
        • The Maharashtra state government announces that there will be a nightly curfew as well as a weekend lockdown in order to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases. These measures will be implemented from tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. until April 30. (The Hindu Business Line)
      • India reports 93,249 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which is the highest single-day number of daily cases since September 21. This brings the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 12.48 million. (Hindustan Times)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh
      • Bangladesh reports a record 7,087 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 637,364. (The Financial Express)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia
      • Mongolia surpasses 10,000 cases of COVID-19 after a record 620 new cases are reported in the past 24 hours. (Montsame)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
      • Taiwan receives its first shipment of 199,200 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine distributed through the COVAX initiative. (Focus Taiwan)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in California
      • California reports the United States' first case of the "double mutant" variant of SARS-CoV-2 first detected in India. The variant has been detected in the San Francisco Bay Area. (KNTV-TV)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Greece
    • Greece reports 78 deaths in the past 24 hours, which is the highest daily total this year, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 8,380. (Ekathimerini)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Libya
    • Libya receives its first shipment of more than 100,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• 2021 alleged Jordanian coup d'état attempt
  • Former Jordanian Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein says that he is under house arrest. (BBC News)
• The United States Armed Forces announces that Camp 7 at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp will close. (The Independent)

Politics and elections

• 2021 Bulgarian parliamentary election
  • Bulgarians head to the polls to elect new members of the National Assembly. (Euronews)
• 2021 Kosovan presidential election
  • The Assembly elects Vjosa Osmani as President. (Reuters)