LISTEN | Two years of Covid-19: Some takeaways

28 December 2021 - 10:23
By Bulelani Nonyukela
It's been two years since the first Covid-19 cases were reported in China. Stock photo.
Image: 123RF/perig76 It's been two years since the first Covid-19 cases were reported in China. Stock photo.

On December 31, 2019, little did we know a novel virus that would greatly disrupt our lives had emerged in the city of Wuhan in China.

Questions about how the virus emerged linger two years after the first cases of Covid-19 were reported.

We speak to associate scientific director at the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in SA, Prof Quarraisha Abdool Karim, about the some of the lessons learnt from the pandemic so far. 

She said: “With Covid-19, we’ve learnt so much so fast.”

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