Russia’s heavy-handed approach to the pandemic—stiff fines for missing quarantine checks, jail time for knowingly hiding infections—could be backfiring, as COVID-19 cases surge.
Social distancing may be a novel concept today, but the first enforced quarantine was some 4,000 years ago, according to tablets excavated from the ancient realm of Mari, in the northeast of what is now Syria.
Facemasks, second-by-second case number updates, and scavenged supermarkets: The COVID-19 outbreak has shaken life in Germany to its core.
