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Lessons from COVID -19

The new decade started out as any other but rapidly unfolded into a scenario that the world will remember for decades to come. Europe and western world viewed as isolated incidence of a novel Coronavirus which dotted across neighboring Asian countries - as swine and bird Flus in the past- took the world by force as the first months of the year rolled on. By mid-March 2020, Europe was the epicentre of Covid 19 and it came in full force. The crisis presents an opportunity to prevent it in time of next emergency. The virus spread, through the inevitable consequences of Globalization from Asia to Europe and beyond at a rapid pace and within three months the world neared one million cases as healthcare systems struggled to carry out the sudden burden. This unraveled Europe throughout, as hospitals scrambled for respirators that weren't there, for Intensive care unit beds as they overflowed and to stock enough Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for healthcare providers to do their