2021

It has been 2 years since the discovery of the SARS CoV2 virus. As of mid December 2021, the ensuing pandemic has already infected more than 270 million persons globally and more than 5.3 million persons have perished.

It is almost 2 years since the SARS CoV2 virus was identified as the cause of an unusual viral pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China. The infection, named as COVID19, spread globally and the resultant pandemic has infected more than 260 million persons and caused more than 5.2 million deaths by the end of November 2021. In Singapore, we have just over 260,000 notified cases of COVID19 with just over 700 deaths as of November 28^th 2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic that first started in December 2019 is ongoing and has already infected more than 180 million persons resulting in 4 million deaths by the end of June 2021. We have learnt much about the virus, the disease that it causes,