Lahore
January 1, 2021
This is the first part of a series of articles documenting Punjab’s response to the corona pandemic. It provides a succinct summary of key developments during the course of the pandemic.
The start of the year 2021 marks one year since the world officially acknowledged the existence of mysterious disease later identified as COVID-19. The virus, later named as SARS-COV2, went on to infect 83 million and kill more than 1.79 million people around the world. It devastated the world economy beyond estimates. Most cosmopolitans are under lockdowns, restrictions and curfews, yet hope allures in the form of new vaccines and treatments. Meanwhile, our battle with the ever-mutating virus continues amid emergence of its fresh variants.