Template:Portal:Current events/2021 March 17

March 17, 2021 (Wednesday)

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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.