Portal:Current events/2020 April 18

• COVID-19 pandemic in Iran
  • Iran parades disinfection vehicles, mobile hospitals, and other medical equipment to mark Army Day as their death toll rose to 4,598. (Reuters)

• COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Hundreds of garment workers march in Chittagong, Bangladesh, demanding factory owners pay them last month's wages following delays. (Reuters)

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
    • Taiwan quarantines 700 Navy sailors after three cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on board a vessel that recently returned from the island nation of Palau. (Reuters)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
      • The Department of Health and Social Care reports 5,526 new confirmed cases and 888 more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the United Kingdom's death toll to 15,464 and 114,217 total cases. (RTÉ)

• COVID-19 pandemic in the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan–United Arab Emirates relations
  • Pakistan begins repatriating some of its citizens from the United Arab Emirates, after the UAE threatened to review its labor ties with countries that refuse to take their nationals back during the pandemic. (Reuters)

• Forty-four suspected Boko Haram members are found dead, apparently due to poisoning, inside a prison in N'Djamena, Chad. (The Guardian)
• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on prisons
  • Bonanno crime family mobster Vincent Asaro is granted compassionate release and released from the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Missouri due to the coronavirus pandemic. (CNN)

• 2019–20 Hong Kong protests
  • Convener of the Civil Human Rights Front of Hong Kong, Jimmy Sham, warns police to expect "more resistance than ever" as veteran pro-democracy activists are arrested in a mass raid. Sham also says plans for a mass rally on July 1 are underway. (Radio Television Hong Kong)
  • Vice-convener of Sham's organization, Figo Chan, is also arrested Saturday afternoon by Hong Kong police. (Hong Kong Free Press)

• Several hospitals across the Czech Republic, and authorities at Prague Airport say they have thwarted numerous cyberattacks against them since yesterday. (Reuters)