Portal:Current events/2021 April 20
April 20, 2021 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Northern Chad offensive
- President Idriss Déby dies from wounds sustained while commanding forces against rebels in the north of the country. The Constitution is suspended, and a Transitional Military Council headed by Déby's son General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno will rule the country for an expected 18 months. (The Africa Report)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania
- COVID-19 pandemic in Fiji
- Fiji records its second community transmission case in the daughter of a woman who works a quarantine facility on the borders and that had tested positive for COVID-19. (RNZ)
- COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand
- A worker at Auckland Airport tests positive a day after the country restarted reciprocal travel to Australia. (BBC)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Fiji
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- COVID-19 pandemic in India
- India reports a record 1,761 new COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 180,530. (Firstpost)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen
- Yemen begins their COVID-19 vaccination campaign by using the vaccine produced by AstraZeneca and University of Oxford. (Reuters)
- COVID-19 pandemic in India
- COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico
- President Andrés Manuel López Obrador receives his first dose of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine. (Al Jazeera)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Romania
- COVID-19 vaccine
- The European Medicines Agency publishes a report suggesting a "possible link" between usage of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine candidate and rare blood clots. The agency maintains, however, that the overall benefits of the shot "outweigh the risks of side effects." (MSN)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania
Law and crime
- Quebec ban on religious symbols
- The Quebec Superior Court overturns certain provisions of Bill 21, which prohibits public sector employees in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols, on the basis that it violates Sections 3 and 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. However, the Court upholds most of the legislation. (Al Jazeera)