Thank you for the opportunity to speak today on an important and live topic ‘The policy lessons from a year of living with COVID-19’. In the beginning…  From late-2019 citizens of the world have watched the COVID-19 virus evolve into a global pandemic.
We observed global decision makers face what seemed an incalculable dilemma: whether to implement measures to contain the spread of the virus - potentially sacrificing lifestyles and livelihoods - or to endure the health consequences of allowing the virus to spread. This policy dilemma was quickly, and unfortunately, resolved by compounding hospitalisations, threatening the sustainability of health care systems.