The aftershocks of the arrival of coronavirus will be long and deep. It has significantly affected the operation of our health services and on a wider scale, society, business, and Government.
Every person's life has been altered in some way. Pandemics change history and people. The last pandemic declared by the World Health Organisation was in June 2009, with the novel influenza virus H1N1 – the swine flu.
At the time, over 70 countries had reported cases. But Covid-19 is different and has brought many surprises with it. A novel virus has the ability to move around the world rapidly, especially with the scale of global travel today.