Template:Portal:Current events/2021 March 17

Current events of March 17, 2021 (2021-03-17) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Mali War
  • At least 33 soldiers are dead and another 14 are injured during an attack on a military post in Gao, Mali.

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Kazakhstan
      • Kazakhstan suspends its talks with AstraZeneca following reports of side effects within its vaccine.
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Lebanon
      • Lebanon suspends its usage of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine due to reported side effects in those vaccinated pending a review from international health agencies.
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Palestine
      • Palestine recieves 61,440 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. 37,440 doses are from the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the other 24,000 doses are of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Uzbekistan
      • Uzbekistan recieves 660,000 of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and distributed by the COVAX sharing initiative.
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary
      • Hungary reports 195 deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, raising the nationwide death toll up to 17,421.
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
      • The Government of Poland announces a new nationwide lockdown, closing all non-essential shops and cancelling all cultural venues for three weeks starting on March 20 in response to increasing COVID-19 case numbers.
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine
      • Ukraine reports a record 289 deaths in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll up to 28,986.
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Superior
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Dakota
      • Dakota reports its first case of the Sierran variant of SARS-CoV-2 and seven cases of the United Kingdom-UK-based Lineage B.1.1.7 variant in the state.
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
    • Brazil reports a record 90,303 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, raising the nationwide death toll up to 11,693,838.

Law and crime

• Same-sex marriage in Japan
  • The Sapporo district court rules that the prohibition of same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.