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India recorded over 100,000 new cases in one day for the first time.

The U.S. is averaging more than three million vaccinations a day for the first time.

Walgreens wasn’t following U.S. guidance on spacing for Pfizer vaccine doses but will do so following complaints.

Get the latest updates here, as well as maps and vaccines in development.

The Navajo Nation’s about-face

The Navajo Nation has vaccinated more of its population than any state, and recently reached an extraordinary milestone: zero cases and zero deaths in a 24-hour period.

It is, perhaps, the place in the continental U.S. that has best contained the coronavirus pandemic. Once, the Navajo Nation had one of the worst coronavirus case rates in the country, and imposed curfews and checkpoints as entire families grew sick. Now more than half of its 170,000 residents living on tribal lands are fully vaccinated.

The story of how the tribe managed this incredible feat comes down to three factors.

Behaviors

Navajo have followed strict lockdown orders and a mask mandate, which was imposed nearly a year ago. In the spirit of community protection, many have lined up to get a shot.

“I think just because of how hard hit the Navajo Nation was, we’ve seen a big increase in participation in taking the vaccine,” said Jonathan Nez, the president.

Funding

Native communities across the U.S. have long suffered under racist policies that diverted resources away from their communities, creating poor access to healthy food, fresh water and adequate health care, and leading to high rates of comorbidities like diabetes and obesity.

During the pandemic, that disinvestment has been fatal: Indigenous Americans have died at rates nearly twice those of white populations in the U.S. A Times analysis found that the federal Indian Health Service, which oversees care for the more than 500 tribes throughout the U.S., struggled to respond to the pandemic because it has long been plagued by shortages of funding, supplies and health care workers.

But in recent months, federal money has been flowing. The $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package provides $31 billion to address persistent problems in tribal nations.

Coordination

Tribal health officials have also credited the nation’s decision to coordinate closely between the Indian Health Service and Navajo health organizations, a much more streamlined operation than the patchwork approach across the country.

“With the funds that are coming to the citizens of this country in terms of recovery and rescue, this time around it’s finally helping our nation grow,” Mr. Nez said.

Evangelical vaccine hesitancy

Millions of white evangelical adults in the U.S. do not intend to get vaccinated against Covid-19, presenting a significant obstacle as the country races to reach herd immunity.

Their opposition is rooted in a mix of religious faith and a wariness of mainstream science, fueled by broader cultural distrust of institutions and gravitation to online conspiracy theories. Some have been energized by what they see as a battle between faith and fear, and freedom versus persecution.

While many high-profile conservative pastors have endorsed the vaccines, other influential evangelical voices have sown fears. In churches, on talk shows and on TikTok, they warn the devout that “globalist entities” will “use bayonets and prisons to force a needle into your arm,” or that the vaccines are “an experimental biological agent.”

Some pastors have largely remained quiet, in part because politics has increasingly shaped faith among white evangelicals. Hesitation is further complicated by longstanding distrust between evangelicals and the scientific community.

Elaine Ecklund, director of the Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University, said that there has been a “sea change” over the past century in how evangelical Christians see science, rooted largely in the debates over evolution and the secularization of the academy.

For slightly different reasons, the distrust of vaccines is sometimes shared by Asian, Hispanic and Black Christians, who are skeptical that hospitals and medical professionals will be sensitive to their concerns, Dr. Ecklund said.

“We are seeing some of the implications of the inequalities in science,” she said. “This is an enormous warning of the fact that we do not have a more diverse scientific work force, religiously and racially.”

Vaccine rollout

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said cruise ships would not have to require vaccinations for passengers or staff when they restart operations.

The biotech firm at the center of a mix-up that ruined up to 15 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine said that there would be changes at its plant — and that Johnson & Johnson would in effect run its own manufacturing there.

A new coronavirus vaccine, NVD-HXP-S, uses a new molecular design that is widely expected to create more potent antibodies than the current generation of vaccines, while also being cheaper and easier to make.

Here’s a roundup of restrictions in all 50 states.

What else we’re following

Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered Britons their first detailed glimpse of what a post-pandemic society might look like, including free coronavirus tests and Covid status certificates.

Israel’s Green Passport system offers a real-time experiment in post-lockdown living, but also leaves many questions unanswered.

New York City schools will no longer have to shut temporarily whenever two unrelated virus cases are detected.

Bangladesh began a weeklong national lockdown on Monday after a stark rise in new cases.

The pandemic grounded a British travel photographer. Here are some of his photographs from his travels at home.

Allegations that government ministers dined in secret high-end restaurants have shocked France, which recently re-entered lockdowns.

If you’re feeling out of it, you’re not alone. The late stage of the pandemic has “left many of us feeling like burned-out husks, dimwitted approximations of our once-productive selves,” Sarah Lyall writes in The Times.

What you’re doing

I live in a very rural area where masks aren’t worn very much. Instead of yelling at non-wearers, try contacting the corporate offices of the stores it’s occurring in, to report the violations and demand safer shopping. Some of our local stores weren’t even requiring masks for staff. I’ve done it all over my county, contacting Dollar General, Casey’s and the local health department, and things have improved significantly because of it.

— Jane Miller, Vienna, Ill.

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