Coronavirus World News: Live Tracker

Here’s what you need to know: ImagePolice officers in protective suits stood guard outside a train station in Jilin, China, last week.Credit…Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Chinese officials have quarantined 8,000 people in the country’s northeast. Officials concerned about a virus resurgence have quarantined 8,000 people and reintroduced lockdown measures in northeastern China, even as…

How France Lost the Weapons to Fight a Pandemic

PARIS — When President Emmanuel Macron repeatedly declared “war” on the coronavirus in March, he solemnly promised that France would support “front-line” health workers with “the means, the protection.” The reality was that France was nearly defenseless. The government’s flip-flopping policies on past pandemics had left a once formidable national stockpile of face masks nearly…