On January 6, 2020, five years ago to the day, International mail reported: “In China, an unidentified virus raises concerns.” The day before, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced in a press release that it had been informed a few days earlier by the Chinese authorities that pneumonia of unknown origin was circulating in the Wuhan region.
We know what happens next: identification of a new human coronavirus called Sars-CoV-2, first deaths on January 11, 2020, global spread, population confinements… Five years later, what can we learn from the Covid-19 pandemic?
“According to the elements in our possession, The pandemic is estimated to have killed more than 20 million people, cost nearly $16 trillion, prevented 1.6 billion children from going to school and plunged some 130 million people into poverty. summary Science.
It took until May 2023 for the WHO to declare that the disease was no longer a health emergency of global concern. But the virus is still circulating, epidemic outbreaks continue to appear without any particular seasonality having been established. And questions remain. For example, we still don't know where this coronavirus comes from and the quest
