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A milder, limited lockdown ends some classes and locks down neighborhoods. Texas, Florida and Arizona set case records. The president of Honduras has the virus.<\/p>\n

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Greenhouse gas emissions are rebounding sharply as countries reopen their economies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Medical workers at a makeshift coronavirus testing center in Beijing on Wednesday.<\/span>Credit…<\/span>Roman Pilipey\/EPA, via Shutterstock<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Canceled flights and abrupt farewells in Beijing.<\/h2>\n

Mass flight cancellations. Abrupt farewells among students whose classes have been called off. Frustration about work and food in sealed-off neighborhoods. And unnerving uncertainty about plans for exams, work, vacation and travel.<\/p>\n

With a fresh outbreak of coronavirus infections<\/a> tied to a market \u2014 137 cases<\/a> after an additional 31 were reported on Wednesday \u2014 Beijing has started living through a milder, and so far limited, version of the disruptive restrictions that China enforced earlier this year to stifle its first tidal wave of infections. Residents in the capital have been sharply reminded that even in China \u2014 with its array of authoritarian powers \u2014 the coronavirus can leap back to life, triggering new rounds of limits on their lives.<\/p>\n

The new outbreak in Beijing has brought embarrassment and a tough response from the Chinese Communist Party. Officials had been proud to the point of gloating in recent weeks about their success in stifling the pandemic in the country. Now the virus is back.<\/p>\n

The Communist Party officials in charge of the city, including the party secretary, Cai Qi, sounded slightly penitent in a meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis group outbreak at the city\u2019s Xinfadi market has already spread to multiple districts of the city and led to associated cases outside the city,\u201d read an official summary of the meeting<\/a> in The Beijing Daily. \u201cThe lessons run very deep, the situation for epidemic control is very grim, and this has sounded a warning to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most Beijing streets flowed with traffic on Wednesday, though less than usual. Restaurants were still open for business, though the government has ordered them to disinfect and to check employees.<\/p>\n

But the flight cancellations from Beijing airports \u2014 about 60 percent, or more than 1,200 flights \u2014 and other signs of disruption have underscored how easily even a limited flare-up can ripple across society. The bulk of the flights in and out of the city were canceled, and so were many trains.<\/p>\n

The flight cancellations were triggered by passengers pulling out of travel because of worry over infections or fear of being caught up in quarantine, Chinese news reports said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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GLOBAL-ROUND UP<\/p>\n

The president of Honduras, his wife and two aides have the coronavirus.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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President Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez of Honduras addressing the nation on the pandemic last month.<\/span>Credit…<\/span>Honduran Presidency, via Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez, the president of Honduras, announced late Tuesday that he, the first lady and two aides had tested positive for Covid-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a televised statement, Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez said he began feeling unwell over the weekend, and the diagnosis was confirmed on Tuesday. He said he is well enough to continue working remotely and will be examined to determine the next steps.<\/p>\n

He urged Hondurans to follow social-distancing guidelines, as he clearly had not.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of my job I have not been able to stay 100 percent at home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said he had been receiving treatment and was feeling better. Doctors recommended rest, he said.<\/p>\n

His wife, Ana Garc\u00eda, also tested positive but was asymptomatic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel enough strength and energy to continue forward and beat this pandemic,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are going to get ahead of this. I trust in God, Honduran doctors and medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 9,000 cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in Honduras, with 322 deaths, according to the Pan American Health Organization. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Here are other developments from around the world:<\/p>\n