Recover, we must, from Covid-19

I LIKE the analogy of a football game. When players perform a dismal display during the first half, the coach must make tough decisions. He needs to relook his strategy. More importantly, he must bring in alternative players. He must discard any notion of hurting the feelings of even his best and most expensive players. It is about winning.

We have gone through the first-half stage. It has been almost 18 months since the first case of Covid-19 hit our shores. Since March last year we have been in different stages of the movement control order. The government has even declared the state of emergency on the pretext of fighting the pandemic.