coronavirus

cat on a chair
Health & Medicine
Desperate pet owners turn to illegal drug markets to cure a rare cat virus 
People walk down a normally bustling shopping street in the center of Amsterdam
COVID-19
With Christmas in the balance, nations eye UK omicron surge
Security forces stand guard inside an airport terminal in Rabat, Morocco
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: The omicron variant and holiday travel
Merck corporate headquarters in Kenilworth, New Jersey.
Medicine
New Merck pill could help treat COVID-19 symptoms for people without access to vaccines
A nurse prepares a syringe for a patient infected with the coronavirus in the intensive care unit at the Syrian American Medical Society Hospital
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: The challenges of vaccinating people in conflict zones
People wearing masks as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus assemble to offer prayers at Dhakeshwari Temple during a Hindu Durga Puja festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh
COVID-19
Randomized study of mask-wearing illustrates their importance in preventing the spread COVID-19
A person wearing blue gloves presents a vial of an AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine dose
Justice
Charges dropped against Congolese Canadian doctor accused of starting COVID outbreak
Man with oxygen mask lies face down on a stretcher with a green blanket on top and two people in the distance
COVID-19
COVID downward spiral in Latin America disrupts life-saving services
Men in suits, some wearing masks and sunglasses stand together
Leaders
Will Ghebreyesus’ pandemic report card earn him a second WHO term?
Army captain in scrubs administers COVID-19 vaccine to man in black shirt
Medicine
The quest for a universal coronavirus vaccine
Two women sit outside, using their cell phones. They are wearing face masks in addition to head coverings.
Identity
One year on, Muslim women reflect on wearing the niqab in a mask-wearing world
A large group of people from the WHO are shown wearing face masks with a car in the nearground.
COVID-19
WHO team visits Wuhan hospital that had early COVID patients
Wuhan Prison is a dive bar that holds about 200 people in Wuhan, China.
Music
Wuhan — China’s punk capital — slowly returns to its indie music scene
A person walks past a closed restaurant in Paris wearing a face mask.
COVID-19
Happy hour canceled in France under strict coronavirus curfew
A rocket is shown launching with the fire from boosters and smoke shown at the bottom with trees in the distance.
Top of The World
Biden seeks to extend US-Russia arms deal; Controversial tweet from Iran’s supreme leader; Honduras set for permanent abortion ban
US President Joe Biden is shown seated at a wooden desk with a tall stack of embossed folders next to him.
Top of The World
Biden tackles the coronavirus; Twin suicide bombings in Baghdad; Migrant shipwreck off Libyan coast
A Venezuelan migrant family walks away from the Venezuelan border in Pamplona, Colombia, Oct. 7, 2020. 
Critical State
Political science of the periphery: Part I
Several people surrounded by rainbow flags in a crowd cheer together in a parade and two people in front take a selfie
LGBTQ
Bars for queer and transgender women are disappearing worldwide. Will they survive the pandemic?
A sign reminding customers about social distancing is placed at the entrance to a grocery store in central Stockholm.
COVID-19
Sweden’s pivot toward new virus restrictions may not ‘shift mindsets,’ says Swedish scientist
Health workers instruct a woman before taking a swab for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test.
Business, Economics and Jobs
IMF reassures COVID-19 support after hundreds of groups push back against belt-tightening measures
Schoolchildren joke around and play at the Olympic Primary School in Kibera, Kenya, on Oct. 12, 2020.
Education
After months of closure, Kenya’s schools adjust to sudden reopening
President Donald Trump listens during a phone call Oct. 4, 2020, in his conference room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
Former CDC head: COVID-19’s spread in White House shows ‘testing does not replace safety measures’
A man with glasses is shown in a close-up photo holding several syringes up to the light.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: Will people accept a COVID-19 vaccine?
A boy sits in a living room at a desk and watches a TV with a lesson airing on it.
Education
Math at midnight: Students stuck in US struggle with remote learning at Chinese schools
A padlock motif on fabric produced by Ghana Textiles Printing represents the lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID-19
This Ghanaian company is producing fabric with motifs inspired by COVID-19
Audrey Tang, the Taiwan government's digital minister, in the Executive Yuan building, Taiwan, on November 8, 2017.
COVID-19
How Taiwan is battling coronavirus with tech, crowdsourced data and trust
Gandega Bakary, 16, who is originally from Mali, has been living on the street in France, even amid the coronavirus lockdown.
Migration
Who is responsible for migrant youth in France? 
A farmworker, considered an essential worker under the current COVID-19 pandemic, harvests beans, May 12, 2020, in Homestead, Florida.
COVID-19
Farmworkers are getting coronavirus. They face retaliation for demanding safe conditions.
Residents listen from a bench, background, as Percibald García reads children's books aloud outside the high-rise buildings in the Tlatelolco housing complex, in Mexico City, on July 18, 2020.
COVID-19
This Mexico City architect transformed an empty public square into a storytelling stage
Jacob Cuenca, 18, a registered Republican, poses outside his home in Homestead, Florida, on May 21, 2020.
Every 30 Seconds
The pandemic upended this Latino teen’s senior year. Now it’s upended his politics.
People wear face masks as they shop in a main market in Jerusalem, Israel, July 16, 2020.
COVID-19
Israel considers a second lockdown as coronavirus cases surge
A police officer wearing a face mask asks for identification documents to a driver in one of the neighborhoods where the mayor's office decreed strict quarantine, amidst an outbreak of the coronavirus disease, in Bogota, Colombia, July 14, 2020.
Bogotá tries ‘staggered quarantine’ to slow coronavirus spread
Luke DeBoer, left, and fiancée Ida Marie Rygg on a trip to Kjerag mountain in Norway. Closed borders during the coronavirus pandemic separated them for months.
COVID-19
‘Love is essential’: Some EU countries relax rules for separated cross-border couples
A line of vehicles are shown next to a row of orange traffic cones leading to a National Guard official at a mobile coronavirus testing facility.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: Can advances in testing counter surging COVD-19 cases?
A restaurant posts a closed sign in Melbourne
COVID-19
Returning travelers in quarantine hotels may have triggered Melbourne’s latest lockdown
A students sits on the steps of Widener Library at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 21, 2009.
Education
Universities scramble to help international students stay in US after new visa restrictions
A circular, close-up model of the SARS-CoV-2, known as the novel coronavirus, modeled in blue, orange and white.
COVID-19
Social media misinformation is ‘growing threat’ to coronavirus vaccine efforts, survey shows
Employees dehead Louisiana white shrimp at C.F. Gollott & Son Seafood in D'Iberville, Mississippi, June 3, 2010.
Immigration
US seafood workers fight unsafe job conditions amid pandemic
A close up of a man speaking into a microphone
COVID-19
Fauci on slowing COVID-19: People ‘can’t think of themselves in a vacuum’
Izcan Ordaz, an 18-year-old high school graduate in Fort Worth, Texas, will vote in his first US presidential election this November.
Every 30 Seconds
Black Lives Matter protests are shaking up how this young Latino voter views US politics
A child looks out from a door as a Uighur woman walks by
Top of The World
New reports on surveillance, ‘demographic genocide’ of Uighurs; Israel hesitates on annexation; Russian election comes to close
Wild boar next to apartment buildings
Environment
COVID-19 lockdowns are a unique chance to study human-wildlife interactions, researchers say
people stand socially distanced in front of a school
Education
Pandemic-prompted remote education efforts get a failing grade
A man is shown wearing a blue shirt with "Lagos Food Bank" written on it while carrying a cardboard box on his back.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: How the coronavirus crisis is exacerbating food insecurities and global inequities
People wearing face masks walk at Trocadero square near the Eiffel Tower, as France began a gradual end to a nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Paris, May 16, 2020.
Some public figures eschew masks. Scientists say wear them.
Several cafe tables are shown in St. Mark's Square with the St. Mark's Basilica in the distance.
COVID-19
EU travel recommendations may impede Americans and Russians
A man in Malawi wearing a blue shirt explains a document to an elderly woman wearing a white head wrap outside
Elections
Malawians vote for president (again) amid pandemic 
A large group of people are shown holding up signs with three people holding posters of George Floyd.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: How systemic racism intersects with the coronavirus pandemic
A grainy photograph showing smoke rising in the distance from a destroyed building.
Top of The World
North Korea destroyed the liaison office with the South; Beijing imposed coronavirus restrictions; France backs away from chokehold ban
Visitors look at a memorial at the site of the arrest of George Floyd, who died while in police custody, in Minneapolis, June 14, 2020.
COVID-19
Why many in public health support anti-racism protests — with some precautions amid coronavirus
Paul Whelan is shown standing in a glass enclosed box wearing a sweater with two men standing out side of the glass wearing balaclavas.
Top of The World
Russia, Philippines hand down controversial convictions; Beijing lockdowns return; New Zealand sports fans return to stadiums
Allyson Plumberg and her family plan to return from Sweden to the United States. Plumberg says Sweden's response to the coronavirus has changed the way she views life in the country. 
COVID-19
Sweden’s handling of coronavirus drives some people to relocate    
People stand on a train platform
COVID-19
‘Travel bubbles’: Who’s in and who’s out of the plan to save global tourism
A black and white photograph of girl on a pony with two people around her
Obituary
Teresa Romanowska survived Nazis, Soviets and cancer, but died of COVID-19
Leticia Arcila, a 20-year-old voter in Atlanta, Georgia, said health care is her top priority in a presidential candidate.
Every 30 Seconds
In Georgia, a young Latina reluctantly casts her primary vote for Biden
Women wearing masks to prevent contracting Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) ride a subway train in Seoul, South Korea, on June 12, 2015.
COVID-19
Past epidemics underscore importance of mental health amid COVID-19
People protest, one woman with a sign "for my future kids my life matters"
Top of The World
Protests raise concerns of COVID-19 spread; Researchers retract hydroxycholorquine study
Two young women with headbands hold face masks at the Shanghai Disneyland theme park as it reopens following a shutdown due to the coronavirus disease
Business, Economics and Jobs
Millennials in China reexamine their spending habits as economy recovers
Chinese and US flags flutter
Conflict & Justice
Was the US sleeping through China’s rise?
Several Black people stand around double doors in masks handing out supplies
COVID-19
Fixing health disparities requires ‘the right data,’ says UK doctor