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Millions of Americans are returning to work at hospitals, retail stores, restaurants and schools. For a short series, we are soliciting stories from those workers about their concerns and hopes for the future.

French police clash with hundreds at rave that violated a curfew.

Five officers were also injured in violent clashes that erupted on Friday night in the town of Redon, in Brittany.

Unlikely to meet his July 4 vaccination goal, Biden focuses on a different milestone.

President Biden set a deadline of having 70 percent of U.S. adults partly vaccinated against the coronavirus by July 4, but on Friday he trumpeted a different milestone: 300 million shots in his first 150 days in office.

CureVac’s mRNA vaccine reaches an efficacy level of just 47 percent in a clinical trial.

The results were a blow to hopes that the vaccine could help meet the world’s urgent need. “This is pretty devastating” for the company, one expert said.

Covid has claimed more than 600,000 lives in the U.S.

The once-unthinkable number comes as the country’s fight against Covid-19 has made big gains but remains unfinished, with millions not yet vaccinated.

The C.D.C. designates the Delta version of the virus a ‘variant of concern.’

The C.D.C. designates the Delta version of the virus a ‘variant of concern.’

A judge dismisses Houston hospital workers’ lawsuit about vaccine mandates.

The decision appeared to be one of the first to rule in favor of employer-mandated shots.

Widespread vaccination of adults helps protect unvaccinated children, according to a new Israeli study.

The study, based on anonymized Israeli medical records, showed that vaccination’s benefits extend to people who have not received a shot.

F.D.A. details failures at a Baltimore plant that led to unusable vaccine doses.

The F.D.A. advised Johnson & Johnson on Friday that it should throw out the equivalent of 60 million doses produced at the Baltimore plant.

McDonald’s in Indonesia are forced to close after a ‘BTS Meal’ frenzy that violated Covid measures.

Crowds of delivery drivers responding to a rush of online orders violated safe distancing measures as they flooded unprepared restaurants.

Washington State allows for free marijuana with Covid-19 vaccine.

The promotion, called “Joints for Jabs,” is one of many across the United States whose aim is to get more Americans vaccinated.

Anheuser-Busch to give away free beer when the U.S. hits Biden’s July 4 vaccination goal.

The company said it would “buy America’s next round” once 70 percent of U.S. adults had received at least one dose of a vaccine.

Moderna applies for full F.D.A. approval for its Covid vaccine.

The company’s application follows the move by Pfizer and BioNTech to seek full approval last month. The vaccines already have emergency use authorization in the United States.

Australia’s softball players are among the first Olympic athletes to arrive in Japan.

The team will be confined to one floor of a hotel as it prepares for the Tokyo Games, which are scheduled to begin July 23 despite a coronavirus outbreak and growing public opposition.

The coronavirus variant discovered in India has a new name: Delta.

The W.H.O. said it will label variants with Greek letters instead of numbers. Scientists hope the change will end the practice of referring to the mutations by the places they were detected.

U.S. experts press calls for China to allow deeper inquiries into the pandemic’s origins.

Suspicions have focused on the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which long gathered bat viruses and whose laboratories conducted experiments on them.

A Nashville hat store sold ‘Not Vaccinated’ Star of David patches.

Idaho’s governor repeals the lieutenant governor’s ban on mask mandates.

Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin had signed an executive order while Gov. Brad Little, her political rival, was away at a conference.

Meet the Ohio vaccine lottery’s $1 million winner: A 22-year-old who ‘thought it was a prank.’

Abbigail Bugenske won the first $1 million prize through Ohio’s new vaccine lottery. A 14-year-old boy also won a full-ride scholarship to college.