A Year since COVID-10: The Challenge and the Response

The Covid-19 pandemic, as a global crisis, will have worldwide long and short-term effects, although – of course – some counties have been, and will be, hit much harder than others. Indeed, some countries, with fragile economies and weaker social systems, have been brought close to collapse by the coronavirus. Even in richer and stabler countries, citizens have still suffered – feeling as though they have been under house arrest and facing a loss of individual liberty as governments seek to defeat a virus as quickly as possible. The result is that world ...


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