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An undisclosed number of passengers and crew aboard the Carnival Freedom tested positive. It was the third outbreak this week affecting ships operated by Carnival and Royal Caribbean.

Our most popular stories not about the pandemic included: advice on raising helpful kids, boy band BTS's U.N. appearance, why South Africa banned alcohol — and a very scary virus called Nipah.

Several airlines are reporting staff shortages from the spread of the coronavirus, leaving passengers with delayed or canceled flights. Bad weather also affected some flights.

With the usual throngs of foreigners absent, Palestinian Muslims and Christians gathered in Manger Square and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas.

The number of new COVID cases in New York doubled in just three days. State officials say the impact of the winter omicron surge on the workforce is already being felt.

From Bethlehem and Frankfurt to Boston, the surging coronavirus put a damper on Christmas Eve for a second year, forcing churches to cancel or scale back services and disrupting travel plans.

Here's how their hospitals are doing nearly two years into the pandemic, what they are seeing in new omicron patients, and their thoughts on the wave of burnout affecting the industry.

The omicron variant plus new state rules mean another round of business closures is likely, say merchants and the groups that represent them.

This is the November 2021 archive of breaking news about the coronavirus pandemic.

For the second year, the Christmas eve celebration in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem was muted by the pandemic precautions.