Yearstarter 2023: Health - Covid-19 still a threat, masks off, tobacco out

A health worker (right) uses a swab to collect a sample for Covid-19 coronavirus testing from a man in Gombak on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur on April 22, 2020. – Photo: Mohd RASFAN / AFP)

OUR lives have changed so much following three years of living in uncertainty over the global pandemic.

We hoped scientists and their brilliant minds would find a surefire way to stop the SARS-CoV-2 virus from spreading but this virus seems to be far cleverer.