Global Impact newsletter: dodging the coronavirus bullet
- Global Impact is a fortnightly curated newsletter featuring a news topic originating in China with a significant macro impact for our newsreaders around the world
- The topic of the second offering focuses on the stories of Covid-19 survivors
The novel coronavirus has no prejudices, plays no favourites. It infects, and potentially kills, no matter our nationality, race, gender or religion.
The stories are both harrowing and heart warming. A daughter’s struggles to get both her infected parents into hospital in Wuhan, China only to contract the disease herself. A Filipino drummer fighting to survive in a Hong Kong hospital far from his family. A passionate fight fan who attended a Muay Thai event in Bangkok that nearly cost him his life. The nonagenarian Indian man who shared everything with his 88-year-old wife, including a successful fight against Covid-19.
And my irrepressible colleague Elaine Ly, who spent a month in hospital here in Hong Kong while her mother was fighting for her life back in the Britain.
The pandemic has changed all of our lives in ways we are just beginning to understand. The stories of Covid-19 survivors give us reason to hope we will rise to the occasion.