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THREAD: The nations of the world ran the gamut in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic -- sometimes veering from strict to lax measures over just a few months, or vice versa. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/c7YuQBS
In Mexico, the government did little, aside from asking its people to act responsibly. The result: more than 100,000 deaths, a number that is presumed to be an understatement. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/WquY7Au 
New Zealand’s government closed its borders and shut down nearly everything, preventing all but a couple dozen deaths. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/AY80uU3
THREAD: They say youth is a protective factor against COVID-19. In Kenya, youths have suffered anyway. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/lWKj4uT
From children forced into hard labor and prostitution to a child shot dead by police enforcing a curfew, the effects of COVID-19 in Kenya have fallen hard on the young. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/FV3TyX3
With schools largely closed in Kenya, many children have turned up on the streets, in quarries wielding hammers and in vast dumps picking through garbage. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/4wcaj7i
THREAD: Japan was accused of botching the handling of the outbreak on a luxury cruise ship near Tokyo, but it has been spared explosive surges without a hard lockdown and is praised for widespread mask-wearing. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/zbLnP8w
Daily cases have spiked recently, triggering fears of a further upsurge. Japan’s government, afraid of hurting the economy, has delayed tougher actions than seeking individual effort such as mask-wearing. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/TfK7tSC
Tokyo and a few other cities requested drinking places to close early until mid-December in their own initiative to slow the infections before the holiday season of parties and traveling. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/TvX5UNp
THREAD: Germans enjoyed a largely relaxed summer with many coronavirus restrictions lifted — the result of a rapid response to the initial outbreak and a reliance on early and aggressive testing that won wide praise. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/udNG5je
Though government rules on social distancing, hygiene measures and mask wearing remained in place, Germany’s early vigilance slid into complacency, adherence began to slip and the numbers of COVID-19 infections started to rise exponentially. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/21wSheH
German officials instituted a so-called wave-breaker partial shutdown on Nov. 2, which succeeded in leveling off the rise of new COVID-19 cases by the end of the month, but at numbers nearly four times the March peak. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/HCSlebG
THREAD: The coronavirus pandemic has only grown worse in Iran, threatening everyone from the day laborer on the street to the upper reaches of the Islamic Republic. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/RYirt68
At a massive cemetery in Iran's capital, a manager says the coronavirus pandemic has been the longest, most intense crisis to strike in its 50-year history. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/vKEzPaE
Crushed by U.S. sanctions, Iran has avoided the full lockdowns seen in other countries amid the coronavirus pandemic as it struggles to keep its anemic economy alive. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/4PIfY84
THREAD: Americans have been inundated by grim numbers this year, starting with COVID-19’s ever-rising death toll. But to grasp just how much the pandemic has upended everyday life, we can turn to a host of other figures, many overlooked. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/e6bsmMs
Consider the billions of miles that Americans didn’t drive this year, when they were stuck at home, many out of work. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/SKBllRX
Or the thousands of airport screening agents who have tested positive for the virus, likely a sign that when Americans did travel some brought the virus with them. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/gecFLuN
THREAD: The pandemic shook the foundations of the social contract in Spain and exposed cracks in the public health system. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/kj6XLAs
If Italy got hit without warning, Spain had a week to get prepared for what was coming. Many say authorities reacted too slowly. apne.ws/BpT8Bq0 #PandemicAtlas
Like many countries, Spain failed to protect its elderly. About 20,000 people died in nursing homes in the first three months of the pandemic. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/f8TpwgL
The story of COVID-19 in Brazil is the story of a president who insists the pandemic is no big deal. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/fBuUbyp
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro condemned the idea of shutdowns, saying they would wreck the economy and punish the poor. He referred to the coronavirus as the “little flu.” #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/jDQvV1c
Asked in April about Brazil’s death toll surpassing China’s, President Jair Bolsonaro responded: “So what? I lament it. What do you want me to do?” #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/KKOK1tm
India’s initial response to the pandemic was an abrupt nationwide lockdown that upended the lives of millions. But once the restrictions eased, cases rocketed anyway, and its creaky public health system struggled to keep up. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/p8T5qqZ
The lockdown in India, among the world’s strictest, caught an enormous migrant worker population off guard. It led to one of the biggest migrations in the country’s modern history. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/fLlEp1E
Fearing starvation, whole families started walking home along highways in what was a humanitarian crisis. The migration also dragged coronavirus into the vast hinterlands. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/HlyHMho
THREAD: A 38-year-old marathoner in the northern Italian town of Codogno was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Feb. 20. It was the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/w5H8cHT
The world watched in horror as intensive care units in northern Italy were overwhelmed with patients struggling to breathe. In cities like Bergamo, deaths were rising so fast that the army was called in to transport the coffins. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/we3osNW
Italy became the first country to order a nationwide lockdown on March 9. From one day to the next, street life disappeared. An eerie silence replaced the usual bustle of cities like Rome and Milan. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/1Esk3ae
THREAD: “It feels like life has recovered,” a Beijing moviegoer said after cinemas reopened. In many ways, normal life has resumed in China, the country where COVID-19 first appeared a year ago. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/6DuJYTX
The pandemic has changed life in China. A clean health code must be shown on a smartphone app to gain admission to many places. With each passing day, though, those restrictions seem less strictly enforced. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/CpjUtxY
Some in China can’t shake a newfound unease, even as COVID-19 has largely retreated for them. "We now do not care about anything other than how our family, the three of us, can live through this year,” a Wuhan native said. #PandemicAtlas apne.ws/yhnmnsX
