NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Aevar Palmason, who lives in Iceland, about an app the country is using to track people who may have been exposed to COVID-19.
They had been thought to be cleared of the virus, which infected hundreds of crew members on the U.S. aircraft carrier in recent weeks. The sailors are receiving medical support on Naval Base Guam.
The coronavirus is shaping a generation of incoming doctors, as their residency training inside U.S. hospitals brings them face to face with a mystifying disease and frequent death.
The city began allowing some businesses such as gyms, salons and movie theaters, as well as churches to re-open — or expand their operations — in a limited capacity on Saturday.
In a decree issued Saturday, officials said they would once more allow travelers to and from the country beginning June 3. The announcement marks a major step in the hard-hit country's reopening plan.
After a brutal attack in Kabul, activists in Afghanistan write: "Our people are targeted and killed on a daily basis. Afghan women are calling for an end to it."
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Nicolas Morales about his recent opinion piece in the LA Times. It documents his experience in an ICE detention facility during the coronavirus pandemic.
Congress has another huge coronavirus economic relief plan. Meanwhile, a former U.S. health official warns of a shrinking window of opportunity to deal with the pandemic before winter.