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Revision as of 20:14, 3 February 2021
February 3, 2021 (2021-02-03) (Wednesday)Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in the Maghreb
- Four Tunisian soldiers are killed by a land mine during a counter-terrorism operation in Mount Mghila, central Tunisia. (AFP via Barron's)
Business and economy
- GameStop short squeeze
- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen requests a meeting with financial regulators to discuss market volatility driven by retail trading in shares of GameStop. (NBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2021 Wooroloo bushfire
- Over 70 homes are destroyed by wildfires in Western Australia. (ABC Australia)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
- The Japanese House of Councillors passes a law that will introduce fines for people and businesses that do not comply with restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (The Japan Times)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
- The Health Sciences Authority approves the use of Moderna vaccine for those aged above 18 in Singapore, becoming the first country in Asia to do so. (CNA)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United Arab Emirates
- The United Arab Emirates reports a record 3,791 newly confirmed cases and 12 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 313,626 and nationwide death toll to 878. (Al-Arabiya)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
- COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic
- The Czech Republic surpasses one million cases of COVID-19. (Arab News)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
- The first case of the 501.V2 variant is detected in Catalonia. Experts believe that it has no relation to South Africa and that it comes from Europe. (El Periódico)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden
- Swedish government announces that all travellers will required to show a negative COVID-19 testing results within 48 hours beginning February 6 in order to prevent the spread of variants of SARS-CoV-2. Swedish citizens as well as foreign residents in Sweden are exempt from this rule. (The Local Sweden)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic
- COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand
- Medsafe provisionally approves the use of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine in New Zealand with certain conditions. (RNZ)
- COVID-19 vaccine
- GlaxoSmithKline and German biotech firm CureVac sign an agreement worth 150 million euros ($180.7 million) to develop a vaccine to counter many variants of SARS-CoV-2, with target to be introduced in 2022, subject to regulatory approval. (Marketwatch)
- Preliminary tests indicate that the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine may reduce transmission of COVID-19, and not simply prevent symptomatic infections. (US News on MSN)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- 2020–21 H5N8 outbreak
Law and crime
- Canadian Public Safety Minister Bill Blair announces that the American far-right group Proud Boys will be classified as a terrorist group. (Washington Post)
Politics and elections
- 2021 Italian government crisis
- Mario Draghi accepts the order from President Sergio Mattarella to form an "emergency government" after the resignation of Giuseppe Conte. (The New York Times)