Here’s what you need to know: ImageAdministering hand sanitizer at an evangelical church in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, last month.Credit…Finbarr O’Reilly for The New York Times Africa is desperately short of ventilators, among other essential supplies. Limited testing means that it is impossible to know the true scale of coronavirus infections in Africa. But several…
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BARCELONA — For five weeks, Lia Aparicio Cenador hasn’t been outside once. “I’ve forgotten what it’s like to be on a street,” said Lia, a 9-year-old girl. Millions of children in Spain, stuck at home since the authorities implemented a nationwide lockdown in mid-March, have been unable to exercise outside, take a short walk around…
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Simon and Carla Fowler are anchored in their catamaran about 650 feet off a deserted beach in the Bahamas, and they have a message for anyone locked down on land who wishes that they too could be self-isolating on the water. “Being out here in a pandemic is actually a lot harder and more stressful…
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Anna Davila and Bryce Cole had planned to elope in late March, while in New Orleans to attend the wedding of friends. Their plan was to leave their two children with Ms. Davila’s mother while they took what they told her would be a quick break. “It was just me and him, nobody knew —…
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Tara Mancini was separated and living in suburban New Jersey when Tinder matched her in 2015 with Peter Goldring. They chatted a bit through the app and then agreed to meet for dinner in New York that same evening. Ms. Mancini, 48, is a senior sales account executive in the customer experience division of SAP,…
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When Anique Hameed first saw Zachary Graham, he was standing about 10 feet away from her inside a Washington nightclub. The distance between them on that occasion, which was a party hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus on Sept. 23, 2017, seemed to give credence to a theory he has. “I honestly believe that up…
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Erica Hubbard waited a long time to get married to Nevin King. Had she waited any longer, she’s not sure they would be married today. “I think it might have been impossible, because the lockdown occurred just a few weeks after,” said Ms. Hubbard, 44, a registered nurse in Lynchburg, Va., who walked down the…
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Are face masks going to become like condoms — ubiquitous, sometimes fashionable, promoted with public service announcements? They should be, one virus researcher says, if early indications are correct in suggesting that Covid-19 is often spread by people who feel healthy and show no symptoms. David O’Connor, who studies viral disease at the University of…
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By Mike Nahrstedt A Monday afternoon in St. Louis, gray and brisk, and five people gathered outdoors. It was an outdoor ceremony, like so many are these days, but only because that was the best option for a wedding that had been thrown together in less than 24 hours. That’s misleading. Our son, Matt Nahrstedt,…
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JON PARELES Traumas and obstacles confront Fiona Apple all the way through “Fetch the Bolt Cutters.” It’s her first album since 2012 and by far her noisiest one, aimed not for radio or for inoffensively curated singer-songwriter playlists — but for catharsis. Apple has never been timid; even on her 1996 debut album, released when…
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