In November 2019, the first known group of humans fell ill due to a mysterious viral pneumonia and by December 2019, the World Health Organization was alerted to a rapidly spreading disease from a coronavirus later named SARS-CoV-2.
The disease and term Covid-19 entered our consciousness and modern life as we knew it was smacked into a jarring,almost dystopian reality.
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Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah
Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah is an honorary fellow at Macfarlane Burnet Institute (Melbourne, Australia) and an alum of the Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia. She is active in science communication and infectious disease biomedical research. She was the first female Asian champion of FameLab, the world’s longest running science communication competition, in 2018. The writer’s views are her own.
