Portal:Current events/2020 March 29
March 29, 2020 (Sunday)
Business and economy
- Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on aviation
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in Hubei, 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in mainland China
- China resumes domestic flights to the Hubei province. Wuhan is expected to resume flights on April 8. (Financial Express)
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Nepal
- Nepal Airlines will allow rescue flights to take stranded tourists back to their countries, but only if embassies requested it. (Nepali Times)
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in Hubei, 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in mainland China
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United Arab Emirates, Transportation in Dubai
- The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority announces that the Dubai Tram and Dubai Metro will be suspended until April 5 as sterilization continues in Dubai. (Gulf News)
Disasters and accidents
- An IAI Westwind jet, chartered by the Philippine government for a medical evacuation flight to Haneda Airport in Japan, crashes upon takeoff at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila. All eight people onboard are killed. (RT)
Health and environment
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Oceania
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in New Zealand
- New Zealand's Ministry of Health reports its first death from COVID-19, a woman in her 70s. (Newstalk ZB)
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Australia
- Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces an even stricter lockdown on the nation. Going out for non-essential reasons is completely outlawed, and only two people per household are allowed out. All schools in South Australia are closed temporarily. (News.com.au)
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in New Zealand
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Europe
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Andorra
- 39 health workers from Cuba arrive in Andorra, as the country's confirmed cases and death toll per capita becomes one of the highest in the world. (Diari d'Andorra)
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Andorra
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in North America
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in New York
- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo extends the stay-at-home order for non-essential workers to April 15. (Business Insider)
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in New York
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Oceania
International relations
- North Korea–South Korea relations, Japan–North Korea relations
- North Korea fires two short-range ballistic missiles into the ocean, the latest in an unprecedented flurry of launches. Both South Korea and Japan condemn the launching. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2020 Malian parliamentary election
- After having been postponed several times, parliamentary elections are being held in war-torn Mali. The election is overshadowed by the recent kidnapping of the leading opposition politician Soumaïla Cissé and the first reported COVID-19 death in the country. (DW)