The U.S. State Department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday recommended avoiding all travel to Japan, and placed it in their highest risk categories, level four.

Many parents are trying to navigate a new world where people are ditching masks and returning to normal while their young children — anxious for interaction after a year of mostly virtual school or having to avoid day care — are still at risk of getting the coronavirus.

Gazans and international aid agencies raced to head off overlapping medical crises Saturday as hospitals already overrun with injuries from the 11-day bombardment by Israel struggled to treat a surge in coronavirus cases from packed shelters.