About 5.8 million people reportedly died globally due to covid[1]. The unreported number is much higher. The world struggled to come out with a comprehensive, coordinated, effective response to the Covid pandemic crisis. The invention of vaccines was a major achievement. The vaccines have helped to mitigate the pandemic’s impact but there is considerable uncertainty about their efficacy against potential new variants of the virus. More infectious strains of the virus, like the Omicron, have raised the spectre of fresh waves of the pandemic although some experts say that the supposedly less virulent Omicron variant will replace the delta variant and its emergence marks the last stage of covid as herd immunity develops.
Covid’s Impact: Likely Trends in 2022 | Vivekananda International Foundation (vifindia.org)
