Every day, from the end of April until mid-June, Tiffany Schureman, 42, would track the package her mother had sent from Dallas to Athens, where Ms. Schureman lives and writes about travel. She has not seen her family in a year, and like many Americans living abroad, she doesn’t expect to for at least several more months because of the pandemic. “It wasn’t the stuff,” she said. Since then, the number of infections in the U.S. has continued to soar, reaching at least 4.7 million, while in many other countries infections have dropped. In Greece, for example, an average of 5 people out of every 100,000 have been infected over the last week.

Source: International New York Times August 05, 2020 14:53 UTC