Overview
- WHO says three people have died, one patient is in intensive care in South Africa, and one of six suspected cases tested positive, and it is investigating.
- Reports identify a Netherlands-based operator with roughly 150 passengers on a voyage that departed Argentina.
- Japan is pressing municipalities to secure shelters for all residents in underground spaces where possible, yet supplies and backup generators remain thin and stays are assumed to last only one to two hours in half‑tatami spaces.
- Strong winds halted JR Shikoku’s Seto-Ohashi Line between Kojima and Utazu before service resumed at 1:20 p.m., disrupting about 6,300 passengers and canceling or curtailing 48 trains.
- Japan’s under‑15 population fell to 13.29 million as of April 1, marking a 45th straight annual decline to the lowest level since comparable records began in 1950.