The East African Friday December 25 2020 Passengers at a bus station in Kigali, Rwanda on March 22, 2020. Covid-19 has forced organisations and governments to timely think and act creatively about interventions that can be tailored to contain the spread of the virus. PHOTO | FILE | AFP Summary Frontline health care providers around the world have gone too long unrecognised and uncompensated, and only through a global pandemic have their efforts become widely valued as critical not only to physical and mental wellbeing, but the health of our economies and wider sectors. Covid-19 has forced organisations, governments, ministries of health and centres of disease surveillance and control to timely think and act creatively about interventions, programmes and projects that can be tailored to contain the spread of the virus and, ultimately, reduce life loss.