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Wanted: world leaders to answer the coronavirus pandemic alarm

The international community has sleepwalked into an emergency that it could have prepared for years ago, analysts say. Illustration: Perry Tse

The international community has sleepwalked into an emergency that it could have prepared for years ago, analysts say.


One virus caused Covid-19. Scientists say thousands more are in waiting

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

In the second part of our series on lessons learned from the pandemic, we look at the need to identify new viruses and the risks of them jumping to humans.


Coronavirus: how much of Covid-19’s social distancing is here to stay?

Covid-19 could change the world long after the virus is contained. Illustration: Henry Wong

The latest part of our series on lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic looks at aspects of lockdown life that could change us forever.


Street by street, home by home: how China used social controls to tame an epidemic

Residents wearing face masks pay for noodles at a residential area blocked by barriers in Wuhan, Hubei province, the epicentre of China's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, April 3, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

TOPSHOT - A man wearing a face mask looks over a barricade set up to keep people out of a residential compound in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on April 14, 2020. (Photo by NOEL CELIS / AFP)

Neighbourhood monitoring system is at the heart of restrictions imposed ‘at the expense of public autonomy and vitality’.


As the coronavirus has swept the world it has forced changes in behaviour on all levels of society. The introduction of the term "social distancing" has many ramifications, from less nightlife to a boom in ordering food online and speculation about what the future may look like.


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