COVID-19

By Fira Abdurachman, Richard C. Paddock and Muktita Suhartono BEKASI, Indonesia — By the thousands, they sleep in hallways, tents and cars, gasping for air as they wait for beds in overcrowded hospitals that may not have oxygen to give…
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By Carl Zimmer About a year ago, genetic sequences from more than 200 virus samples from early cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, disappeared from an online scientific database. Now, by rooting through files stored on Google Cloud, a…
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By Abdi Latif Dahir KISUMU, Kenya — Before Kenya’s president and other leaders arrived in late May to mark a major public holiday, health officials in Kisumu on Lake Victoria saw disaster brewing. Coronavirus infections were spiking,…
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By Sui Lee Wee Mongolia promised its people a “COVID-free summer”.  Bahrain said there would be a “return to normal life”.  The tiny island nation of the Seychelles aimed to jump-start its economy. All three put their faith, at least in…
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By Pam Belluck Hundreds of thousands of Americans have sought medical care for post-COVID health problems that they had not been diagnosed with before becoming infected with the coronavirus, according to the largest study to date of…
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By Joseph Stepansky There is growing public support among the world’s scientific community for fully exploring the possibility the coronavirus may have emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, leading to the global outbreak that has…
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By Richard C. Paddock and Chau Doan For more than 20 years, the husband and wife were stalwarts of their evangelical community: pastors who founded a small church in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where they led services and distributed food…
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By Jeffrey Gettleman, Shalini Venugopal and Apoorva Mandavilli NEW DELHI — At Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, a huge facility in the middle of India’s capital, 37 fully vaccinated doctors came down with COVID-19 earlier this month. The…
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By Glenda Kwek, Nivrita Ganguly and Nishant Saxena NEW DELHI / MUMBAI / LUCKNOW - Ajay Singh Yadav only managed a final video call with Raj Karan before his close friend became the latest of an alarming number of young Indians, including…
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By Ernesto Londoño and Letícia Casado PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — The patients began arriving at hospitals in Porto Alegre far sicker and younger than before. Funeral homes were experiencing a steady uptick in business, while exhausted doctors…
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