Worldwide Disasters Report | April 2021

The following disasters were recorded (by area) impacting thousands throughout the globe during April 2021

Worldwide

Coronavirus COVID-19 reported 154,815,600 confirmed cases and 3.236,104 deaths since the onset of the virus. Vaccine doses have been administered to thousands according to the World Health Organization. The Americas lead in cases, followed by Europe, South-East Asia, Eastern Mediterranean, Africa, and the Western Pacific.

Africa

• Severe Tropical Storm Jobo westward in Indian Ocean

Angola

• Flash floods hit Luanda, Angola with at least 14 dead, 8000 displaced

Australia

• Deadly downpour triggers severe flooding in Queensland

• Western Australia under rare weather threat of three tropical systems

Brazil

• Parana reports increase in chikungunya cases

• Oropouche fever confirmed in the city of Teresina, Brazil

Colombia

• Persistent heavy rain cause landslides and deaths

• Severe weather leaves 45 people dead with more than 2,000 homes damaged in Colombia

Democratic Republic of Congo

• Deadly floods isolating 16 communities because of damaged bridges and roads.

Europe

• Record temperatures ahead of new widespread cold blast

France

• Historic freeze wreaks havoc on the majority of this year’s fruit harvest

• Frost damage could cut French Wine Output by a Third

Guatemala

• Lava flows from Guatemala’s Pacaya volcano

Guinea

• Bata explosions (Equator)

• Ebola outbreak grows to 23 overall cases

Haiti

• Severe Weather with flooding

Hong Kong (SAR)

• Ciguatoxin poisoning cases

India

• M6.4 Earthquake Strikes Assam Region

• Hospital turn away patients in COVID-19 tsunami

Indonesia

• More than 40 people killed and hundreds missing after severe floods and landslides

• Phreatic explosion at Dieng volcano

Iran

• Earthquake M5.9 in southern province of Bushehr

Italy

• 17 eruptive episode at Etna forces closure of Catania Airport

Kenya

• Mombasa on alert over dengue fever

Mauritius

• Widespread flooding after two months’ worth of rain in a day

Oceania

• Category 3 Tropical Cyclone “Sera” batters Western Australia causing widespread damage

Paraguay

• Dengue DEN-2 predominates the country

Peru

• Persistent heavy rains trigger flooding and landslides

Philippines

• Typhoon “Surigae’ leaves 3 dead, 230,000 displaced

Russia

• Wildfires reach record high in Omsk as air pollution grips Novosibirsk, Western Siberia

Singapore

• Heaviest rainfall in 40 years triggers flash flooding

South Africa

• Wildfire scorches buildings, leave two injured in Cape Town

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

• Red alert issued for La Soufriere volcano, evacuation ordered

• New massive eruption at Soufriere spreading over two continents

• Volcano still erupting

• Flooding and mudslides

Sweden

• Salmonella outbreak over. Linked to chocolate wafers

Taiwan

• Two quakes on eastern Taiwan

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

• Floods wash away cars and people in Mecca

United Kingdom

• Large coastal landslide at Nefyn Bay in north Wales

• April 2021 on track to be frostiest in the UK for 60 years

• Human to cat COVID-19 transmission in the UK

United States of America

• CDC investigating Salmonella outbreak linked to wild songbirds

• Texas 2021 deep freeze left nearly 200 people dead (new analysis)

• Washington: Campylobacter infections linked to unpasteurized raw milk

• Destructive hail and tornadoes slam southern U.S.

• Destructive Hail Storm His Norman

• Civil Unrest

• Capsized commercial boat off Louisiana

Vietnam

• Hand, foot, and mouth disease cases up in Vietnam

Yemen

• Humanitarian Crisis