Back in business - how Israel beat Covid: inside the 9 April Guardian Weekly

This week: Behind Israel's vaccination success story. Plus, Myanmar's mass exodus, and Britain's contentious race report.
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The northern hemisphere spring is well on the way: will it bring renewed grounds for optimism as the world wrestles with the Covid pandemic? Many nations still face difficult weeks ahead as cases surge and vaccination rates are slow. But in others, normality is returning fast as infection rates fall to negligible levels.

This week's Guardian Weekly big story focuses on more successful efforts to tackle the pandemic. Oliver Holmes considers how Israel's trailblazing but controversial vaccine programme has forced Covid into retreat. From Auckland, Tess McClure reveals how New Zealand's tight virus controls helped it become a pioneer in Covid genome research. And we have a longer feature from England where, as shops are set to reopen after a three-month lockdown, Sarah Boseley talks to the scientific team who identified and tracked the outbreak of the UK variant.