Joint Efforts to Fight Pandemic

On March 11, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic, the highest level for a global health emergency. As of late March, more than 150 countries and regions reported confirmed cases. The highly contagious disease has brought unprecedented challenges and threats to the public health system of each country, and it is anybody’ s guess as to how long it will linger. In history, crisis and human progress often go together and even though the epidemic sparked nationalism and isolationism and has slowed globalization, a new wave of international cooperation has been created on vaccine development, information sharing and technological exchanges. Countries worldwide are joining to fight the virus and fear, trying to minimize economic losses. Meanwhile, combating the virus will encourage people of the world to construct a better form of globalization and new modes of global governance.