COVID-19 at the 1-year mark: How the pandemic has affected the world
for the most recent information on the COVID-19 pandemic. It has now been a year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has claimed millions of lives and changed the ways in which each of us relates to and navigates the world. How has the pandemic impacted our lives these past 12 months? Medical News Today assess the situation. A year ago, on March 11, 2020, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared that the global COVID-19 epidemics had become so widespread that they constituted a pandemic. “[The] WHO has been assessing...