We need to engage the public in flattening the Covid-19 curve

Maintaining social distancing is not always practicable but citizens must be encouraged to do so. [File, Standard]

In less than six months Covid-19 has claimed close to 400,000 lives with 5.7 million confirmed cases globally.

Covid-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization at the end of January 2020 sending panic across the globe and has caused unprecedented and incalculable consequences in human health and health care systems as well as economies.