Effort to stem Covid-19 will be futile if we don’t fix weak links

Physicist Albert Einstein once said that in the middle of difficulty lies an opportunity. This, without doubt, may be the case with the Covid-19 pandemic.

We’ve witnessed countries uniting to fight a common enemy. Doctors and top researchers are coordinating efforts across nations to fight the crisis. It has brought out people’s resilience and exposed the vulnerabilities of the economy, supply chains and public health, with consequences that may take years to reverse.