COVID-19, masks and beyond

Later, WHO escalated the outbreak to a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Life hasn’t been the same ever since the new norm of lockdowns, masks, sanitisers and social distancing were introduced to tackle the menace sown by the virus. It’s now more than two years since the first outbreak was reported from Wuhan.

Increasingly, life became difficult and the frustration of adhering to the COVID-19 restrictions is wearing out everyone. The grim statistics of COVID-19 without doubt will cause us to miss a few heartbeats as we stare at them. As of January 31, 2022, a total of 384 million cases with 5.7 million fatalities were reported worldwide. The United States of America reported the maximum COVID-19 cases for a single country with a total of over 76 million cases and over 900,000 fatalities for the same period.