While the US, which has suffered far more grievous outbreaks, is now filling stadiums with vaccinated fans and cramming airplanes with summer vacationers, the pandemic champions of the East are still stuck in a cycle of uncertainty, restrictions and isolation
Workers prepare to spray disinfectant in homes where people tested positive for COVID-19 in Bangkok on May 7, 2021. All across the Asia-Pacific region, the countries that led the world in containing the coronavirus are now languishing in the race to put it behind them; Image: Adam Dean/The New York Times
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