The sustained loss of smell and taste among some Covid-19 survivors is receiving new attention from scientists, who fear it may affect nutrition and mental health.
Americans have fled their local lockdowns for Mexico City, where coronavirus restrictions have been more relaxed. But hospitals in the Mexican capital are overwhelmed, and cases of Covid-19 are surging.
Pope Francis criticized people who traveled abroad to sidestep pandemic lockdowns, saying they were ignoring those who were suffering.
Struggling substance-abuse centers are shutting down or relying on virtual programming. People who struggle with dependence have started relapsing.
The N.C.A.A. intends to hold its men’s basketball tournament entirely in Indiana in March and early April, in an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

A 60-year-old Virginia state senator, Ben Chafin, died from complications of Covid-19.
Israel has distributed the first of two doses to more than 10 percent of its population, in an unusually successful vaccination campaign. The effort has not extended to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian Authority does not appear to have publicly requested vaccine doses.
“Coronavirus will not kill the office,” wrote Dror Poleg in The Times. “If anything, it figures to be more dynamic than ever.”
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