World Status Report

This report intends to give the UTD Community a snapshot of international risks, and other issues as reported by the linked media and official sources from the U.S. and other countries. 

More health and security information for each country can be found in the travel advisories issued by the governments of the United States, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia, and the CDC, ECDC, and WHO sites. Not all advise in these sites will apply to US travelers. 

Please note the publication date of this report and go to the direct sources linked for the most up-to-date information. The information in this report may change without prior notice. 

Security 

• Kyiv’s defense chief dismisses deputies in ministry reshuffle (Reuters) – Ukraine’s defence minister is dismissing three of his deputies in a reshuffle as Kyiv struggles to fend off Moscow’s 2 1/2-year-old invasion, he said on Tuesday. Rustem Umerov said in a social media post he had asked the government to relieve Stanilsav Haider, Oleksandr Serhiy and Yuriy Dzhygyr of their duties as deputy defence ministers, and Liudmyla Darahan as ministry secretary. 
• Shanghai knife attack kills three on eve of China’s National Day (Reuters) – Three people were killed and 15 others injured in a knife attack at a suburban supermarket in Shanghai on Monday on the eve of China’s week-long National Day holiday, the latest in a series of stabbing incidents in major Chinese cities this year. The assailant, a 37-year-old man surnamed Lin, has been detained, local police of Songjiang district said in a statement on Tuesday. 
• School bus fire in Thailand kills at least 23 (Reuters) – At least 23 people died in Thailand when a school bus carrying more than 40 students and teachers on a field trip caught fire in the outskirts of the capital Bangkok, police said on Tuesday. Twenty three bodies have been identified, Trairong Phiwpan, forensic science commissioner told reporters, with an investigation on the causes underway. Sixteen students and three teachers were sent to a hospital for treatment, Transport Minister Suriya Juangroongruangkit said. 
• Israel says it’s raiding Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon, group fires at Israel (Reuters) – Israel said commando and paratroop units launched raids into Lebanon on Tuesday as part of a “limited” ground incursion, while Iran-backed Hezbollah said it had fired a barrage of missiles into Israel, including at its spy agency near Tel Aviv. 
• Israeli airstrikes kill at least 37 in Gaza, Palestinian medics say (Reuters) – Israeli airstrikes killed at least 37 people in Gaza on Tuesday, local medics said and fighting ramped up, as the Israeli military said it had been targeting command centres used by its Islamist militant foe Hamas. Palestinian health officials said at least 13 people, including women and children, were killed in two Israeli strikes on two houses in Nuseirat, one of the enclave’s eight historic refugee camps. 

Environment 

• Nepal – Floods and landslides (ERCC) – According to media reports, as of 1 October, 217 people died, including 35 due to a landslide in Dhading district, in Bagmati province, southern Nepal. National authorities and Save the Children report that 111 people have been injured, 4,000 have been rescued, a total of 540 people have been displaced, and 5,000 have been affected. In addition, more than 54 schools and four bridges have been damaged, and 23 highways have been affected. 
• Hundreds of firefighters battle a deadly forest fire raging in southern Greece for the third day (AP News) – Hundreds of firefighters and volunteers in southern Greece battled a wildfire for a third day that has killed two people and devastated a large forested area, prompting pledges of assistance from other European Union countries. Three waterbombing aircraft from Italy and Croatia were due to arrive later Tuesday after Greece requested help through the 27-country bloc’s emergency civil protection mechanism. The Greek fire service said more than 400 firefighters, assisted by 20 aircraft, were engaged against the blaze in the mountains of Corinthia in the Peloponnese region. 

Humanitarian 

• Lebanon crisis: UN launches $426 million aid appeal as ‘limited’ ground invasion reportedly begins (UN News) – UN humanitarians launched a $426 million appeal for Lebanon on Tuesday to support one million people uprooted by widespread Israeli shelling amid what Israel has described as a “limited, localised and targeted” ground operation into Lebanon, across the UN-patrolled line of separation. 

Health 

• Rwanda reports first Marburg virus outbreak (CIDRAP) – Rwanda’s health ministry has reported the country’s first Marburg virus outbreak, which has already sickened 26 people, 8 of them fatally, across 7 of the country’s 30 districts. The outbreak comes as Africa battles multiple infectious disease events, including the complex spread of multiple mpox clades. Marburg virus causes a viral hemorrhagic fever disease with symptoms similar to Ebola.  

Please note the publication date of this report and go to the direct sources linked for the most up-to-date information. The information in this report may change without prior notice. 

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