Coronavirus Resurgences

More than 40 people tested positive for the coronavirus after Christmas services at a church in Massachusetts.
Officials said that one in 50 people in England had been infected with the virus.
In Japan, Hakuho, the country’s top-ranked sumo wrestler, has tested positive for the coronavirus. Japanese officials said that the rest of Hakuho’s stable would now be tested.

Here’s a roundup of restrictions in all 50 states.
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While many countries are still reeling from Covid-19, China — where the pandemic originated — has become one of the safest places in the world.
Indonesia’s Muslim clerics are awaiting an answer from China’s vaccine maker to the question: Is the vaccine halal?
Vaccine rollouts in Europe are off to a shaky start, hampered by slow-moving bureaucracies, a lack of nurses and the shortages of vital equipment.
As New York City braces for a pandemic winter, many parks, plazas and open spaces have been transformed into cold-weather playgrounds.
New York Magazine explored the theory that the pandemic may have started after a possible lab accident in China.
The New Yorker details the series of mistakes in assessing the coronavirus threat that led to the worst outbreak in the world, in the United States, in “The Plague Year.”
Two friends who were at a Giant Food supermarket in Washington got the Moderna vaccine after health care workers didn’t show up for their shots and their doses were set to expire, NBC reports.
The New York Times & NBC