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 

• 19 killed in Israeli strikes overnight (ARAB News) – Gaza’s civil defense agency said on Tuesday that Israeli strikes overnight killed at least 19 people across the Palestinian territory, where Israel has resumed its offensive against Hamas. 
• Zelensky confirms Ukraine troops in Russia’s Belgorod region (BBC) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has publicly acknowledged for the first time that his troops are active in Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine. 
• Haiti humanitarian crisis worsening as violence escalates, says aid group (Reuters) – The humanitarian situation in Haiti is dramatically worsening, aid group Save the Children said, with underfunded security forces increasingly overwhelmed by powerful gangs and capital Port-au-Prince on the brink of collapse. 

Infrastructure 

• Brazil will require visas for US, Canadian and Australian citizens (AP News) – Brazil will reintroduce visa requirements Thursday for U.S., Canadian and Australian citizens, a move that ends the country’s open entry for people of those nationalities after six years. 

Environment 

• Myanmar – Earthquakes (ERCC) – As of 8 April, media reports indicate over 3,600 deaths, 160 missing persons, 5,017 injured, and approximately 69,100 displaced individuals. The Mandalay region has been the hardest hit, while UN OCHA estimates that over 17.2 million people have been affected across the impacted areas. Humanitarian partners. In neighbouring Thailand, the earthquake has caused 23 fatalities and 36 injuries, with the Bangkok city area being the most severely affected. 
• Bolivia – Severe weather and floods (ERCC) – As of 7 April, at least 55 people died, 103 families have been displaced in La Paz, Santa Cruz and Potosí departments, and 590,529 people across 232 municipalities have been affected, with La Paz, Santa Cruz, Beni, Oruro and Chuquisaca departments as the worstaffected. In addition, 1,204 houses have been destroyed. Five departments declared a national emergency or disaster. 
• Democratic Republic of the Congo – Floods (ERCC) – Heavy rainfall has been affecting Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, since 4 April, causing flooding and landslides that have resulted in casualties and damage. As of 7 April, 33 people have died and 46 were injured due to the overflow of the Ndjili River, affecting 13 out of 24 municipalities in Kinshasa city area. 
• Europe experienced its warmest March since records began (Reuters), as climate change continues to push temperatures to unprecedented levels, European Union scientists said. 

Health 

• Southern Africa Indian Ocean – Cholera outbreak (ERCC) – In Angola, as of 6 April, 178 new cases and four deaths in the last 24 hours have been reported, resulting in a cumulative total number of 10,949 cases and 408 deaths across 17 provinces, with a case fatality rate of 3.7%.  In Mozambique, as of 7 April, a total of 2,792 cases and 50 deaths are reported in seven districts of Nampula and Zambezia provinces. Access to healthcare is limited due to damage to health facilities caused by tropical cyclone Jude.   
• Mexico reports its first human H5N1 avian flu case (CIDRAP) – Mexico’s government on April 4 reported the country’s first human H5N1 avian flu infection, which involves a 3-year-old girl who is hospitalized  in serious condition. The girl is from Durango state in northwest Mexico. She was treated with oseltamivir in the hospital in the city of Torreón. 
• UK reports clade 1b mpox case with no travel history or links to earlier cases (CIDRAP). The United Kingdom’s Health Security Agency (HSA) today announced that a clade 1b mpox infection has been confirmed in a person who has no travel history and has no reported links to earlier confirmed cases. 
• Texas announces second measles death in unvaccinated child (CIDRAP) – The patient was an unvaccinated school-aged child who had been hospitalized in Lubbock. Health and Human Services (HHS) Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on X that the child, an 8-year-old, had no underlying health conditions and died April 3 from measles pulmonary failure, according to her physicians.  

Humanitarian 

• Dangers grow for Myanmar quake survivors, health system ‘overwhelmed’ (UN News) – In earthquake-shattered central Myanmar, people are sleeping in the streets in fear of buildings collapsing, facing early monsoon rains and the risk of waterborne diseases. Ten days after a 7.7 magnitude quake levelled buildings and buckled bridges across central Myanmar, the latest death toll has passed 3,500 and is “likely to rise”, said Titon Mitra, UN Development Programme Regional Representative in the country, speaking from the devastated city of Mandalay. 

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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