Portal:Current events/2021 December 18
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December 18, 2021 (Saturday)
Disasters and accidents
- Typhoon Rai
- The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Rai rises to 33. (Al Jazeera)
- 2021 Karachi explosion
- Fourteen people are killed and several others injured by a gas explosion in a sewage system in Karachi, Pakistan. (BBC News)
- Three workers are killed and three other people injured when two cranes collapse on a street in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. A residential building is also hit. (La Stampa)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
- COVID-19 pandemic in France, Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
- France imposes a ban on British travellers, including businesses trips, from entering the country without compelling reasons due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in the United Kingdom. French and EU citizens returning from the UK must be self-isolated for seven days unless they can show a negative COVID-19 test result on arrival, which can be reduced to 48 hours. (France 24)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal, COVID-19 vaccination in Portugal
- Portugal begins administering the vaccination against COVID-19 for children aged between 5 to 11 years. (Reuters)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine
- Ukraine reports its first case of the Omicron variant in a person who had travelled from the United Arab Emirates. (The Times of India)
- COVID-19 pandemic in France, Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina, COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
- At midnight, Argentina and Brazil reopen their borders for tourists with a mandatory vaccination proof or a negative COVID-19 test. (La Voz)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
International relations
- Israel–Ukraine relations
- Ukrainian ambassador to Israel Yevhen Korniychuk says that Ukraine might recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. (Times of Israel)
Law and crime
- Former Ukrainian President and oligarch Petro Poroshenko leaves Ukraine on a "pre-planned diplomatic tour" of Turkey and Poland after the National Bureau of Investigation attempts to issue a summons regarding charges of abetting terrorism. The National Bureau of Investigation claims that Poroshenko was involved in looting national resources from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. (Deutsche Welle)