Faced with this unprecedented virus, how long will it be before America makes a vaccine and anti-viral drug?

Governments are responding to the health emergency as they rightly should, but ensuring food supply is equally vital.

Global powers have failed to consider health as a security issue. Covid-19 will likely change that.

Even the inter-provincial demarcations within a country are now becoming biometric borders.

This is the best reflective time we have got—everyone needs to use it productively.

The current Covid-19 pandemic is certain to bring a permanent change in the world.

Any effective response to a Covid-19-related food crisis requires examining how to restructure our global and national food systems.

The direct effects of Covid-19 might be bad, but the potential economic shock can be catastrophic.

Migrant workers have contributed to keeping the economy afloat. Now it's time for the government to do its part.

Measures taken to fight this pandemic show that our approach to policymaking must be humanistic as much as it should be scientific.

Policymakers must do everything in their power to prevent overstretched health systems from battling two epidemics simultaneously.

The world is witnessing a pandemic but governments everywhere have failed to live up to the challenge.

The government should urge all institutions to draft business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

Wall-to-wall coverage of the pandemic leaves no attention to spare for political opposition parties and movements.

The government needs to act to neutralise the threats to food and nutrition security from the lockdown.

We must learn to live with uncertainty, rather than allowing ourselves to be held captive by it.

The lockdown may be easy for some to bear, but daily wage workers are suffering.

Narrow nationalism will not protect us from global crises. But will we learn from the current pandemic?

Already known as the ‘factory of the world’, the powerhouse may yet be aided by the Covid-19 pandemic to adopt a larger role in the global arena.

Just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, so the failure of a single country to contain Covid-19 heightens the global risk.