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We’re covering coronavirus problems in China and Brazil, easing restrictions in Italy and France, and the mysterious disappearance of a Norwegian mogul’s wife.
New virus cluster in China as Brazil struggles
Officials worried about a resurgence have reintroduced lockdown measures in northeastern China, even as restrictions lift elsewhere in the country.
A new virus cluster in Jilin, the second largest city in Jilin Province, and another in Shulan prompted health officials to quarantine at least 8,000 people. Jilin’s residents are largely barred from leaving the city.
Meanwhile, Brazil is becoming an epicenter of the pandemic, with a daily death rate second only to that of the United States. Public health experts say the government’s chaotic response to the crisis has undercut the capacity of its robust health care system.
Hot spots are also emerging in Africa. In the Nigerian city of Kano, the experience of overwhelmed doctors and gravediggers seems to undermine the relatively low official count.
In other news:
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Japan became the world’s largest economy to officially enter a recession, after its already weakened state was further dragged down by the impact of the coronavirus.
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India extended a nationwide lockdown until the end of the month, keeping in place many but not all of the strict rules, which have been credited with helping prevent a bigger outbreak.
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Former President Barack Obama criticized President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, saying in a virtual commencement address that “this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing.”
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The chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve said that while he expected the U.S. economy to recover, the downturn brought about by the coronavirus could last until the end of 2021.
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As many as 1,000 babies born into Ukraine’s booming surrogate motherhood business could become marooned in the country as their biological parents in other countries cannot travel to retrieve them after birth.
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Asian markets rose moderately on Monday and futures markets were predicting Wall Street would open about 1 percent higher. Follow our live briefing.
Here are the latest updates and maps of where the virus has spread.
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Supplies dwindle in France and Britain with no vaccine
Some European leaders have warned it may not be practical, or even possible, to wait for a vaccine before lifting restrictions on society.
Italy will open up restaurants, bars and stores today, and allow Italians to legally visit friends again, but Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has said the country cannot afford to wait for a vaccine. Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain has suggested a vaccine “might not come to fruition,” for some time.
That may be hard for countries like France, where officials depended on foreign factories to replenish their national stockpile of medical gear instead of making their own. Now, as the country begins lifting its lockdowns, there is no guarantee it has enough supplies like face masks to ward off a potential second wave.
United Kingdom: Labs are now scrabbling for limited testing supplies, paying the price of racing to meet the government’s 100,000 daily tests goal last month.
Case study: While Sweden, which stayed open, has avoided the devastating tolls of outbreaks in Italy, Spain and Britain, it also has seen an extraordinary increase in deaths, mortality data show.
Go deeper: Why are women-led nations doing better fighting the coronavirus? A new leadership style offers potential lessons for weathering future global crises.
Voices: One teenager shares what it’s like to survive a severe inflammatory syndrome linked to the coronavirus that has been identified in 200 children in the United States and Europe.
If you have 20 minutes, this is worth it
U.S.-made bombs are killing civilians in Yemen
President Trump’s embrace of arms sales to Saudi Arabia has helped prolong a war that has killed more than 100,000 people in the Arab region’s poorest nation. U.S.-made bombs have fallen on wedding tents, funeral halls and a school bus in Yemen — creating the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Above, a destroyed funeral hall in Sanaa in 2016.
Our investigative reporters reviewed thousands of pages of records and interviewed more than 50 people who knew about or made decisions on the policy, across two administrations, to sell U.S. weaponry to Saudi Arabia.
Here’s what else is happening
Afghan deal: A long-running dispute over presidential elections was settled on Sunday when President Ashraf Ghani gave his rival, Abdullah Abdullah, the leading role in the peace process with the Taliban and naming rights over half the cabinet. The deal ends a political crisis that impeded efforts to end the country’s long war.
Amazon: The online giant will begin reopening its six warehouses in France following a legal battle over protections for employees.
Norwegian mystery: At first, the disappearance of a mogul’s wife seemed to be an abduction. But as suspicion turned on the husband, Norway has obsessed over each development.
Fired by Trump: Democrats in Congress have opened an investigation into President Trump’s firing of the State Department’s inspector general, who was replaced with an ambassador with close ties to Vice President Mike Pence.
Snapshot: Above, Olivier Sylvestre, a performer from Cirque du Soleil, training in a Montreal park for the first time in months. The pandemic has forced the famed circus to shut down dozens of shows and ground its army of circus artists.
Hotel quarantine: For one engineer in Barcelona, lockdown has meant wandering the halls of a luxury hotel as its sole occupant.
What we’re reading: This Vulture essay. “A seemingly anodyne explanation of why the author, an art critic, and his wife, an even more famous art critic, have been drinking bad deli coffee and eating nothing but chicken paillard during the pandemic goes into an autobiographical narrative so off the rails I have no words,” writes our reporter Jennifer Steinhauer. “Please read every word.”
Now, a break from the news
Cook: Melissa Clark’s no-bake chocolate peanut butter bars have a fudgy-salty-sweet vibe, with a layer of caramelized flavor from letting the butter turn golden brown after it melts.
Watch: Go behind the series “Snowpiercer,” based on the film by Bong Joon Ho. (Also, 23 filmmakers share memories of the Cannes Film Festival.)
Read: These debut novels have arrived at a tough time, but they deserve your attention. Classic murder mysteries are simply “damn good books,” writes one of our reviewers.
Do: Consider camping in your own backyard this summer. Here are some tips on how to freeze kale, collards and other leafy greens to maintain their bright flavor and texture.
Some lockdowns are easing, but if you’re staying safe at home, we have a lot more ideas about what to read, cook, do and watch.
And now for the Back Story on …
Close-ups of the pandemic
Philip Montgomery has spent two months on assignment for The Times Magazine, documenting the coronavirus outbreak in New York City. He photographed health care workers inside hospitals, and families at a funeral home in the Bronx.
Here are excerpts from what he told Times Insider about covering what he called “the story of our time.”
Going into the hospitals for the first time was a mixed bag. The whole experience was traumatizing, and it was terrifying to see the sheer volume of patients suffering there. We saw a system that had been transformed, and we saw health care workers working tirelessly to treat all New Yorkers.
The immediate read was fear and trauma, but on the other side of the coin there was hope and calm because the doctors and nurses conveyed a capability, that in their hands we would be OK. It was a roller coaster of emotions.
We would be hit by the reality of what was happening, and then be in the presence of these doctors who were so focused and clear and unwavering, and it was beautiful.
Over the course of these shoots, I learned about the reality behind the numbers. It’s one thing to follow the news and the statistics, but it’s another to witness the underlying tragedy up close.
I really hope this work promotes empathy for fellow Americans. We all have a role to play in this, and I hope these pictures show that we are all trying our best. I also hope it serves as a record in our collective history.
How has it affected me? I’m not really sure. I’m still processing it. I have no idea because I’m still moving through it.
That’s it for this briefing. Learn more about Britain’s Captain Tom. See you next time.
— Isabella
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