MOST countries were hardly prepared to face the speed and invincibility with which Covid-19 spread. The Chinese city of Wuhan was the first to see the outbreak emerge in late 2019; by Jan 25,2020, more than 10 countries had been affected with more than 1,000 cases.
By the time the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 as a pandemic on March 11, it had already spread to hundreds of countries.
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