Prior to the dawn of 2020, few of us would have heard of coronavirus. We might have seen a speculative news story around the turn of the year, a narrative describing a mysterious new virus that had taken lives in China – but it’s perhaps unlikely that we paid it much attention.
By the time the month of January had concluded, the term coronavirus had become more prevalent; a broad understanding was building. By the end of February, there were perhaps few that had not heard of Covid-19. Today, we are all tragically aware of the lethal strain of coronavirus that is Covid-19.
In fact, the story of 2020 is undoubtedly the Covid-19 pandemic. This hard-to-detect virus has gone from engulfing China and the wider Asia region to spreading all out across the globe, creating epicentres in certain regions at different stages of its spread. Countries around the world have been through periods of shutdown, putting up borders and locking down citizens. At one point in this pandemic, around a quarter of the world’s population were in a state of lockdown. Truly challenging, distressing and unprecedented times for humanity have been compounded by equally challenging times both industrially and economically. The business world will perhaps never be the same again.
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