World enters 2021 under Covid shadow


WITH revelry around the world curtailed by lockdowns and curfews to stem the spread of Covid-19, the lions of London’s Trafalgar Square are barricaded off, and there are no crowds in St Peter’s Square and no one diving into the Tiber in Rome.

This New Year’s eve is celebrated like no other as many people bid farewell to a year they would much prefer to forget – one that has seen more than 1.7 million people killed and 82 million infected by the coronavirus since January. – January 1, 2021.


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