Our coverage of the coronavirus
A selection of our stories about covid-19 and its consequences
Political and social consequences
Millions of birds have died. How to stop humans dying, too
As isolated human cases of H5N1 emerge, now is the time to prepare
The Chinese scientist who sequenced covid is barred from his lab
The Communist Party is still hounding experts whose work might expose its pandemic missteps
Broadway is struggling to find its rhythm after the pandemic
The Great White Way is looking slightly less great
Covid-19 was a disaster for the world’s schoolchildren
The costs of wasting brainpower are huge
Economic consequences
The EU’s covid-19 recovery fund has worked, but not as intended
The fund should pave the way for more collective European spending
What economists have learnt from the post-pandemic business cycle
The curious and furious recovery has brought some old ideas back to the fore
The pandemic has broken a closely followed survey of sentiment
Americans’ opinions about the state of the economy have diverged from reality
Epidemiology
Long covid is not the only chronic condition triggered by infection
Finding similarities between post-infectious illnesses could lead to better treatments
In an ugly world, vaccines are a beautiful gift worth honouring
According to the WHO, they have saved more lives than any other medical invention
The 2023 Nobel prizes honour work that touched millions of lives
Besides mRNA vaccines, they celebrate ultra-fast lasers and tiny prisons for light
Data trackers
The pandemic’s true death toll
Our daily estimate of excess deaths around the world
The global normalcy index
Is the world returning to pre-pandemic life? Find out with our interactive tracker
Tracking covid-19 across the world
Use our live data to follow the battle against the pandemic
Excess deaths, by country or city
In many parts of the world, official death tolls undercount the total number of fatalities
Tracking the coronavirus across Europe
How countries and regions are coping with the covid-19 pandemic