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Residents in a sealed-off Shanghai neighborhood receive bulk-ordered food supplies under the monitoring of health workers in hazmat suits
COVID-19
This Shanghai writer and translator shares his experience of the city’s 2-month lockdown
Delivery drivers in Shanghai have been the unsung heroes during a strict COVID-19 lockdown that kept millions indoors.
COVID-19
Shanghai’s delivery drivers — the unsung heroes of a long pandemic lockdown
An engraving inside Peace Arch pays homage to the historically close relationship between the US and Canada
Borders
Families separated by US-Canadian COVID border restrictions find reprieve in Peace Arch Park
Chinese New Years' decorations for sale at Yu Gardens in Shanghai.
COVID-19
Travel for Chinese New Year plummets amid coronavirus concerns  
A man stands in front of the Skogafoss waterfall in Skogar, Iceland, March 8, 2020.
COVID-19
2020: The year of the primal scream — and other pandemic remedies 
"Cain’s Jawbone," by Edward Powys Mathers
British comedian becomes third person in 90 years to solve difficult literary puzzle
A pair of travelers are shown walking in the International Arrivals section of London's Heathrow Airport with one person pushing a cart carrying several bags.
COVID-19
For holiday travel, England uses COVID tests to reduce quarantines
Parents wait with their children to enter their elementary school in Sderot as it reopens following the ease of restrictions preventing the spread of the coronavirus in Israel, May 3, 2020.
Israel’s hurried school reopenings serve as a cautionary tale
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
A restaurant posts a closed sign in Melbourne
COVID-19
Returning travelers in quarantine hotels may have triggered Melbourne’s latest lockdown
Three musician roommates sit on their rooftop and look up at the camera
Coronavirus Art
This trio in Spain gets through ‘confinement blues’ with socially conscious music
The sound collage, “Social Distance, Haiku, and You,” pulls together haikus about life in quarantine from all over the world.  
Coronavirus Art
Quarantine projects curate pandemic-inspired art
Voters line up to cast ballots outside in South Korea
COVID-19
Millions of South Korean voters head to the polls amid COVID-19 pandemic
Arrivals at Incheon International Airport are directed by staff in protective gear.
COVID-19
South Korea flattened the curve. Now what?
A police officer talks to a woman and child, all in face masks, outside a hotel
COVID-19
How ‘war’ with coronavirus could lead to lasting government overreach
A man is shown wearing a medical face mask and large headphones while looking at a mobile phone.
COVID-19
Lockdowns and entry bans imposed around the world to fight coronavirus
A member of a burial team prepares to spray a colleague with chlorine disinfectant in Monrovia.
Health
Despite international aid, some Ebola workers are still ‘on the frontlines with no ammunition’
Residents who were in an Ebola quarantine area complain to a security officer as they wait for their relatives to bring them food and essentials, in West Point, Monrovia, on August 23, 2014.
Health
It’s not just the US — Liberian officials are rethinking Ebola quarantines
Nurse Deborah Wilson has recently returned from Liberia, where she worked with Doctors Without Borders to treat Ebola patients.
Medicine
An Ebola nurse faces widespread stigma after returning from Liberia
Housing Works CEO Charles King, second from left, speaks out against the current quarantine rules put into effect in New York and New Jersey following Ebola fears in the region outside of Bellevue Hospital in New York on October 27, 2014.
Health
US medical workers strike back at strict Ebola quarantines