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Covid-19 and the World

No crisis has had the global reach and impact of Covid-19. There have been more than 120 million recorded cases of the Coronavirus and 2.7 million people have died and curbs on people’s freedoms have become a familiar part of daily life in many parts of the world.

Just over a year since the world started to get to grips with the first global pandemic in more than a century, what can we say about how different countries have dealt it?

Which countries have been worst-affected and why? Which public health systems have held up best? Why did test and trace work in some countries but not in others?…

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