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South Africa gave the world an early warning. Decisive action on containment and surveillance could help us control it.

Austria took the hardest line yet on Monday, beginning a lockdown aimed exclusively at those who are not inoculated, part of a pattern to make life harder for resisters.

More school districts are embracing “test-to-stay” protocols that allow uninfected close contacts to remain in the classroom.

Britain is reporting more than 30,000 new coronavirus cases a day, but the public seems to have moved on. Experts say this could be a glimpse into the future for other countries.

During the Delta surge, British schools emphasized other safety measures: quarantining and regular testing for the virus.

Although the risk of vaccinated people becoming infected with the coronavirus is low, it can still happen, the C.D.C. says. Here’s what you need to know.

The bloc recommended that its 27 member nations lift a ban on nonessential travel from the United States, but each country will decide for itself.

Interest in visiting the islands is running high, but the price of paradise can be multiple Covid tests, expensive stints in quarantine, long waits in line and more.

Foreign businesses worry that tough quarantines and restrictions could persist into next year as Beijing struggles with variants and questions about its vaccines.

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 short.

Continue reading the main storyNew York will no longer require international travelers arriving in the state to quarantine though it continues to recommend they do so, according to new guidance released by the Health Department.The change was intended to bring the state in line with travel recommendations issued ear...

Continue reading the main storyMany Americans know they’ve put on weight during the pandemic, but it’s been difficult for experts to detail the scope of the problem.In addition to altering dietary patterns, the lockdowns have curtailed the physical activity of daily living, scientists said. Credit...Etienne Laurent/...

Germany, France, Italy and Spain became the latest countries to suspend use of the vaccine even as a third wave of the pandemic threatens the continent.

The island has used its pandemic success to sell something scarce: life without fear of the coronavirus. Citizens have flocked home from abroad, helping to fuel an economic boom.

The country’s short, sharp responses have repeatedly subdued the virus and allowed a return to near normalcy. Now its model is being applied to Perth, its fourth-largest city.

Nearly 11,000 people were forced to quarantine this fall in a suburban Atlanta district that didn’t mandate masks, but it stayed the course, until a staffing shortage shut the doors.

Skylar Mack, 18, was sentenced to four months in prison for violating coronavirus restrictions in the Cayman Islands. After an outcry, her sentence was reduced to two months on Tuesday.

The variant is up to 70 percent more transmissible than earlier versions, officials said. People in southeast England, including London, were told to stay at home.

The decision, intended to slow a second wave of coronavirus cases, is a blow to the struggling restaurant industry.

Flouting the state’s pandemic restrictions on gatherings, hundreds of people flocked to a castle-like estate in Brookhaven on Sunday night.