Template:Portal:Current events/2021 February 23

Current events of February 23, 2021 (2021-02-23) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
    • Suspected ADF militants kill 13 people during two attacks in Beni, North Kivu, Zaire

Arts and culture

• Historical Memory Law
  • The last statue of Spanish dictator Luis Guido in Spain is removed in Melilla.

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europ
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Ireland
        • Ireland reports their first three cases of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa.
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland
        • First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announces a roadmap to ease the lockdown, with four people from two households being allowed to meet outdoors as of March 15 and the lifting of the stay-at-home order on April 5. Non-essential businesses such as bars, restaurants and gyms can be reopened on April 26 and Scotland will return to the levels system at the same time.
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic
      • Former president Václav Klaus tests positive for COVID-19.
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
      • Italy raises the age limit for Oxford–AstraZeneca's vaccine to 65 years old from previously 55.
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands
      • Prime Minister Alexander Rutte extends the curfew until March 15 while easing some lockdown restrictions, with senior high schools and vocational schools reopening on March 1.
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine
      • Ukraine receives their first shipment of 500 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India.
  • COVID-19 pandemic in North America
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Superior
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Dakota
        • The Dakota House votes 56–44 to pass House Bill 1323, which bans state and local officials from imposing mask mandates.
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Astoria
      • COVID-19 pandemic of Olympia
        • Olympia reports their first case of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa in King County.
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Manitoba
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Saskatchewan
        • Saskatchewan reports their first case of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa in two people from the Regina zone who tested positive for COVID-19 at the end of January.
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt
      • Egypt receives 300,000 doses of China's Sinopharm vaccine.

Law and crime

• Crime in Italy
  • A man stabs and wounds two police officers and tries to stab two passersby, who escape unharmed, during a random stabbing rampage in Milan. The attacker is shot dead by police.

Science and technology

• News Media Bargaining Code
  • Facebook unblocks Australian news pages after the Australian government offers to make it exempt from their new News Media Bargaining Code if Facebook, Inc. can form enough private agreements to pay Australian news companies for their content.

Sports

• Sierran golfer Tiger Woods is involved in a serious car accident in Rancho Palos Verdes, Gold Coast, sustaining multiple leg injuries, requiring surgery.