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White flags planted by volunteers visualize lives lost in the U.S. to COVID-19 as part of an installation by artist Suzanne Firstenberg in D.C. The death toll has now reached 300,000.

Eleven months into the COVID-19 crisis, an unimaginable death toll has been reached. NPR spoke to doctors, nurses and the bereaved about how they face loss every day.

An undated artist rendering of the coronavirus.

July 2021: Coronavirus Blog Archive

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

The San Diego City Council is shown at a meeting on Nov. 19, 2019.

Council Votes To Halt Evictions, Provide $6 Million Relief Fund For Businesses

The emergency law temporarily halting evictions in San Diego will last until May 31.

Williams graduated from high school last spring. He thought he would go straight to college, but second guessed his plan after getting a taste of distance learning. "I'm terrible at online school," he says.

'Losing A Generation': Fall College Enrollment Plummets For 1st-Year Students

Researchers say the pandemic is largely to blame for this year's drastic enrollment declines, but college-going has also been on a decade-long downward trend.

Prema Thakur, an official for the Champawat district in India, teaches Pratap Singh Bora, a 56-year-old migrant laborer from Nepal, how to write his name in Hindi.

A 56-Year-Old Finally Learned To Write His Name — Because Of A Coronavirus Lockdown

Pratap Singh Bora is a migrant laborer from Nepal who had to leave his construction job in India and is now living in a relief camp. But there's an upside to this turn of events.

Instead of going to college this fall, Brian Williams got a job at a Jimmy John's near his home in Stafford, Texas. He says paying for college was always going to be hard, but it was even harder to justify the expense during a pandemic.

'Losing A Generation': Fall College Enrollment Plummets For 1st-Year Students

Researchers say the pandemic is largely to blame for this year's drastic enrollment declines, but college-going has also been on a decade-long downward trend.

This tree-planting photo was submitted with an application for a gun license in Ferozepur, a city in India's Punjab state.

To Get A Gun License, First You Have To Plant 10 Trees

That's the new rule in Ferozepur, a district in India's Punjab state. As proof you have to submit a photo of yourself with your saplings.

Samples of blood and other bodily fluids at the coroner's office in Marion County, Ind., are tested for controlled substances.

Omissions On Death Certificates Lead To Undercounting Of Opioid Overdoses

Standards for how to investigate and report on overdoses vary widely across states and counties. As a result, opioid overdose deaths often go overlooked in the data reported to the federal government.

Relatives of victims who died from COVID-19 visit graves in the special area of the Municipal Pantheon of Valle de Chalco, Mexico. The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll on the country, especially its poorest citizens.

'If Coronavirus Doesn't Kill Me, Hunger Will': Mexico's Poor Bear Brunt Of Pandemic

Low earners have been doubly hit: They make up the highest share of virus-related deaths and lack the funds to stay afloat as the pandemic plunges Mexico deeper into recession.

A highly potent synthetic opioid, fentanyl is often mixed in to other drugs sold on the street, including pills, heroin and even cocaine.

Fentanyl Surpasses Heroin As Drug Most Often Involved In Deadly Overdoses

When fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, infiltrated the drug supply in the U.S. it had an immediate, dramatic effect on the overdose rate.

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