Looking beyond Covid-19

Virus effect: Customers sit at tables socially distanced from each other in Madrid, Spain. Companies like Manulife are responding fast to Covid-19. - Bloomberg

AGAINST the backdrop of Covid-19, the number one concern for many of us continues to be health: our own and our loved ones’, closely followed by our finances.

Life insurers have been quick to respond. Early in the outbreak, Manulife Insurance Bhd stepped up to introduce a range of special measures and coverage benefits to alleviate anxieties around costs and to reassure Malaysian customers and families that they’re able to get the medical care they need.