Rather than defeating Covid-19, the world is being forced to learn to live with it. Six months after the pandemic began, the number of new cases rose by a record level of 307,930 on 13 September, and no end is in sight, as we report in our special package on page 26. A vaccine, or vaccines, may eventually be developed, but it would be reckless for governments to assume as much.
As well as causing nearly a million official deaths, Covid-19 has magnified pre-existing crises and newly exposed the world’s vulnerabilities. Multilateral institutions have foundered as states have resorted to vaccine nationalism.
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