Those who led during the Covid-19 pandemic

Civil society stepped up in many ways during the Covid-19 pandemic, including volunteering to make PPE for HCWs during the period of shortage. — Photos: Filepic

The world had two pandemics in slightly over a century.

The Great Influenza pandemic (also known as the “Spanish flu”) in 1918-1920 affected about a third of the global population (about 500 million people), with an estimated 17-50 million deaths.