With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccines have been successfully produced some 11 months after the virus was first detected - a process which would normally take up to a decade or two, writes Barry Schoub.
In December 2019, global health authorities were alerted to a cluster of unusual pneumonias in the city of Wuhan in central China.
A year later, 10 December 2020, the ensuing pandemic of the SARS CoV-2 coronavirus had claimed over one and a half million lives and caused illness in close on 70 million people worldwide, some of whom would suffer the debilitating long-term consequences of the illness - the so-called "long Covid".
