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Europe’s Summer of Recovery Is More Fragile Than It Looks



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ALBUFEIRA, Portugal — Until last week, Raissa Moura and her co-workers at the reception desk of the Pine Cliffs Resort were feeling optimistic that life was returning to normal along Portugal’s Mediterranean coast.The previous year, as the pandemic halted travel, they had fretted over the desolation of the usually bustling, 1,300-bed hotel and villa complex. They had suffered layoffs and worked weeks on end inside an eerily quiet lobby processing cancellations. Outside, foxes brazenly wandered the abandoned grounds.But this summer was already shaping up nicely in the Algarve, Portugal’s leading tourist destination. Cases of Covid-19 had dropped …

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