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Supplies of everyday medicine, think pain-reliever paracetamol, face a threat. India one of the world’s largest exporter of drugs, relies on China for 70% of its raw pharmaceutical ingredients. The Indians are not getting the ingredients because of China’s very responsible attitude of lock-down in response to the Wuhan virus,... 

The World Health Organisation has declared that the Coronavirus is a pandemic with the implications that the world is going to face the horrifying threat of existential devastation. Singapore seems to be handling the crisis well, a credit to the self-centred PM Lee Hsien Loong and his cohort of mercenary minsters. They are probably... 

History tells us it is during a major crisis such as a war or extreme disaster that the beautiful and ugly are most distinguishable. The present Covid-19 outbreak is an excellent illustration. By the second day after the first Covid-19 case was made public, almost all face masks were sold out. Interestingly, the same evening,...