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New York: With coronavirus infections rising and a contagious new variant threatening to accelerate the pandemic, France has implemented a stringent 6pm to 6am curfew. Citizens nationwide are sequestered indoors, and businesses must close down.
In Quebec, Canadian officials imposed a similar restriction earlier this month, running from 8pm to 5am. It has frayed nerves: Notably, a woman who was walking her boyfriend on a leash at 9pm has argued that this was permitted during the curfew, surely one of the pandemicâs most unexpected moments.
Police officers patrol a street in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where an emergency nighttime curfew has been introduced for the first time since World War II.
Covid-19 Live Updates: Biden Officials Confront U.S. Vaccination Woes
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The president of Mexico has the coronavirus. Travel from South Africa to the U.S. will be barred.
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Dr. Vivek Murthy, President Biden’s nominee for surgeon general, spoke in Wilmington, Del., last month.Credit.Hilary Swift for The New York Times
Four Biden officials tried on Sunday to manage public expectations about vaccine distribution, as frustration grows among Americans over long lines, canceled appointments and other daunting issues.
The officials also tried to smooth over confusion about President Biden’s goal of 100 million shots in the first 100 days of his administration. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist, called the figure “a floor, not a ceiling,” on the CBS program “Face the Nation.”