Public policy analyst Leonard Khafafa.
Last year, Covid-19 spawned new vocabulary. Contact tracing, social distancing, masking and sanitising became the buzzwords in the global attempt to fight the pandemic. But the new disheartening Delta variant has brought on the realisation that the disease will not disappear anytime soon. Vaccination is now being touted as the elixir that will make life bearable, if not eliminate the pandemic altogether.