Portal:Current events/2021 April 4

April 4, 2021 (Sunday)

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)