For the first time in recorded history countries not formally at war have shut their borders against their neighbours.
Even traditional allies in the global set-up could not sustain the pretence that things were normal and life could go on as usual. So it was that the United States after choosing to keep its doors open to visitors from the United Kingdom and Ireland after initially closing it to other countries in Europe stepped back to shut their skies on flight from these two countries. The cause of this global anxiety is Covid-19, the virus that first broke out in December 2019 in Wuhan in the Chinese province of Hubei.
Viewed initially as a problem for the Chinese to resolve, Covid-19 has now ensured a lockdown of the world. The possibility, real threat of global annihilation that was long foretold, is no longer an issue of mere speculation. Except that the present danger is more of biological warfare than the nuclear war the world long feared.
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Source: Vanguard Newspaper
