The government is lifting a lockdown despite warnings from health experts that the outbreak could worsen.
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Is the Delta Variant Making Younger Adults ‘Sicker, Quicker’?
Many doctors on the front lines say unvaccinated patients in their 20s and 30s are becoming more severely ill, and more quickly. But comprehensive data is lacking.
Delta Variant, R.S.V. Infections Rising Among Children
An outbreak of respiratory syncytial virus, combined with growing Covid-19 pediatric cases, is straining hospital resources in some U.S. cities.
Even the Pope Has Prayed to Venezuela’s Beloved ‘Doctor of the Poor’
In a deeply polarized country, suffering an extreme health crisis, one of the few uniting beliefs is the admiration across the political spectrum for a doctor recently beatified by the Vatican.
They Were Once Luxury Venues. Now They Are Grim Covid Camps.
As an outbreak seizes Cambodia, patients who test positive for the virus say they are being forced into quarantine centers that are more like makeshift prisons than hospitals.
How a Frontline Nurse Trained for the Olympics in a Time of Pandemic
When the coronavirus hit her home country, Joan Poh, Singapore’s only female rower competing in Tokyo, had to juggle a return to her hospital work with getting ready for the Games.
Indonesia Extends Restrictions During Eid al-Adha
The country surpassed India and Brazil with the largest number of daily cases in the world, establishing it as an epicenter of the virus.
How Indonesia Became the Coronavirus Pandemic’s New Epicenter
The suffering that ravaged places like India and Brazil — with deaths soaring, hospitals overwhelmed and oxygen running out — has reached Southeast Asia.
The Pandemic Has a New Epicenter: Indonesia
The suffering that ravaged places like India and Brazil — with deaths soaring, hospitals overwhelmed and oxygen running out — has reached Southeast Asia.
Hospital Fires Outrage Iraqis, but They See Little Hope for Change
Two catastrophic fires in coronavirus wards are symptoms of the mismanagement and corruption that have left millions of Iraqis without proper health care, reliable electricity or clean water.