Published on: Sunday, April 25, 2021
By: Tan Sri Dr Jemilah Mahmood and Sophia Lim
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AS the world, its people and its economies slowly return to normal, post the grinding halt due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we must realise that we are not in the clear just yet. We cannot go back to business-as-usual because, as we saw and experienced, business-as-usual was, and will continue to be, detrimental to our planet.
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused more than 141 million confirmed cases to date. It has swept through countries and continents, and caused massive human suffering, shaken financial markets and upended societies. However, while the spread of the current crisis is unprecedented, Covid-19 follows a number of diseases that have emerged in recent decades such as Ebola, AIDS, SARS, avian influenza and swine flu.