For the first time in history global economic calamity was triggered due to a virus. All flights were shut down, the entire world was put into lockdown in one way or another and all human-to-human contact, including handshakes, were prohibited. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) originated in Wuhan, China. Then the deadly virus travelled around the world through infected humans called virus carriers. However, within one year, the world came out of a vaccine to defeat the virus.
China, where the virus started, is now a success story. They contained the virus and
although the total number in infectants was close to ninety thousand, the total
deaths recorded were 4,635. Another success story is Pakistan, with a population
of 212.2 million, contained the virus and kept businesses open. Pakistan recorded
460 thousand cases with little over nine thousand deaths.
Time to time humans are made aware of how much is unknown to them and to their developed but un-just world. Challenges come in the shape of diseases like, Antonine plague, Cyprian plague, Justinian plague, Smallpox, the Great plague of London (that killed nearly 20% of the city’s population), First Cholera pandemic, The Third plague, Measles, Russian Flu, Spanish Flu, Asian Flu, Aids, MERS, SARS and now COVID-19.