Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall on the Defender of the Fatherland Day in Moscow, Russia February 23, 2022. [Sputnik/Aleksey Nikolskyi/Kremlin via REUTERS]
Over the last three years or so, the Covid-19 pandemic has been perhaps the most stand out feature on the globe.