Your Evening Briefing: Covid-19 Surges Out of Control in Europe
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Empty tables and chairs outside a beer house in central Berlin on Nov. 18. Just months after people began to return to the office, German officials say the country is facing a return to lockdown.
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Europe is heading for lockdown and imposing tight restrictions on the unvaccinated as a wave of new Covid-19 infections threatens to overrun its already battered healthcare systems. The situation, a dramatic reversal from just a few months ago, is turning into a race against time as infections explode. In the process, the crisis is upending markets and frightening investors who had prematurely written off the immediate virus threat. Austria is heading for nationwide lockdown and mandatory vaccination. Germany’s leadership hasn’t ruled out a lockdown, either. In the U.S., regulators approved the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 boosters for all adults. Here’s the latest on the pandemic.
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