"A lawyer flew home to China hoping to see his family for the first time since the pandemic began. Instead, he was trapped in three months of quarantine."

"After two years of largely containing coronavirus outbreaks, China’s “Covid zero” policies are being tested by the highly transmissible variant."

>"The Omicron coronavirus variant is moving much faster than researchers can, worsening a longstanding problem: The agency must make tough decisions with scant data."

>"Without hard rules about employees who test positive, owners and workers are weighing safety against finances, and not always agreeing on the answer."

>"Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain apologized in Parliament for attending a garden party at Downing Street in 2020 while the country was under a strict coronavirus lockdown. Mr. Johnson had not previously admitted to being at the _...Read More_

>"El cansancio por la pandemia aumenta en el continente durante las fiestas decembrinas. Igual que la resignación porque el virus sea endémico."

>"On the eve of the biggest holidays in Europe, exhaustion with the pandemic is rising. So is resignation that the virus is endemic."

>"The discovery could complicate efforts to reopen the border between the territory and the Chinese mainland."

>"The state, along with neighboring Upper Austria, will apply the restrictions to everyone regardless of inoculation status. The moves come in the wake of national rules affecting unvaccinated people."

>"Residents in Ruili, in southwestern China, have been locked down four times in the past year as part of the country’s quest to eliminate the virus."

>"The government has staked its political legitimacy on controlling the virus better than other countries, especially its geopolitical rivals."

>"While social distancing measures were lifted, Saudi authorities said pilgrims must be vaccinated and wear face masks."

>"Minute-by-minute data offers a glimpse of how we suddenly adapted to a different way of living in 2020 — and how those changes varied _...Read More_

>"Kerala uses tracking of patients and supplies, a network of health care workers and coronavirus “war rooms” to succeed where the national government has fallen _...Read More_