1. Many countries are now settling in for the long haul with the coronavirus. We look at how. w/ @benjmueller @EmmaBubola @hudidi1 @CFSchuetze and Su-hyun Lee https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/world/europe/countries-reopening-coronavirus.html?smid=tw-share

2. Among all the measures I've seen, I'm most intrigued by some of South Korea's. Most people carry TWO different types of masks for different social settings. Air conditioners should be turned off every 2 hrs. People should sit in a zig zag fashion when they eat.

3. Indoor places with crowds seem to be the culprit for most of these second waves/cluster outbreaks. 83 cases from a nightlife district Tokyo. In Germany, more than 1,500 workers from a meat processing plant tested positive. In Rome, 122 cases tied to a hospital cluster.

4. In Japan, railway operators have launched an app and websites telling commuters how crowded the trains are at any given time. Cool idea.

5. China favors a mass testing approach focused on specific groups. They want to get a firm grasp of how much virus there is out there. But not many countries can replicate that model. They mobilized about 100,000 workers to test 2.3 mln ppl in Beijing in a week.

6. In Germany, regions or municipalities that register more than 50 new infections per 100,000 ppl in 7 days must quickly respond to quell the outbreak, using tools like school closings, full quarantines and mass testing. 50 seems to be the magic number for S. Korea too.

7. In Britain, officials say local shutdowns are sufficient to control new waves of the virus. Boris Johnson likens it to "Whac-A-Mole." (As an aside, there was a lot of discussion in the newsroom about whether it was Whac-A-Mole or Whack-A-Mole.)

8. Ending this thread by giving a shout out to all my global colleagues, without which this story would not have been possible. I learned so much, and I hope you do too!