Health crisis ravages the world
Mar 14, 2021
4 minutes
SHANNON EBRAHIM shannon.ebrahim@inl.co.za
REUTERS
NOTHING has shaken the world in our lifetime quite as Covid-19 has, and a trail of misery has been left in its wake. To date, 2.6 million people across the world have died in just over a year.
As people try to compute the loss of life, income, the human suffering, and the significant economic contraction of most economies, comparisons have been made with past global pandemics, world wars, and the global financial crisis of 2007/08.
While the pandemic has ravaged the world, the number of infections have been highest in the US, India, Brazil, Russia, the UK, France, Spain and Italy. The developed countries will recover far quicker than those in the developing world, as
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