Portal:Current events/2020 November 13
November 13, 2020 (Friday)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania
- COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
- Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces that all states and territories in Australia will reopen their borders by Christmas, with the exception of Western Australia. (9 News)
- COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand
- The Auckland CBD reopens after contact tracing of a new case revealed it was linked to a known case from a border isolation facility, reversing an earlier call for people to work from home. (RNZ)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
- COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
- The number of confirmed cases in Germany surges to a new record of 23,542 cases over the past 24 hours, according to data from Robert Koch Institute. (Zeit Online)
- COVID-19 pandemic in India
- COVID-19 pandemic in Delhi
- Delhi reports 104 new fatalities on Thursday, the highest single-day figure since the beginning of the pandemic and pushing the overall death toll to 7,332. (The New Indian Express)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Delhi
- COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
- China's General Administration of Customs suspends seafood imports from Basu International for one week after it detects COVID-19 infection on the outer packaging of the frozen cuttlefish. (The Times of India)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania
Law and crime
- Legality of cannabis
- Cannabis in Israel
- Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn announces that Israel will begin a nine-month process to legalise and regulate recreational use of cannabis. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Cannabis in Israel