After the coronavirus crisis: How will the world change around us?

The shutdown imposed to slow the spread of the virus could push some economies into a full-scale meltdown. Financial markets may never recover to pre-crisis levels.

One day, the battle against the novel coronavirus will be won. But the world that emerges may look very different from the one we lived in before the pandemic began.

Over 60,000 people have lost their lives to Covid-19 and there are more than a million confirmed cases although the outbreak yet to reach its peak across the developed and emerging world.

But on top of the tragic human toll, the coronavirus also threatens incalculable social, economic and political costs, and to trigger a wave of change that will shape our world for years to come.

The shutdown imposed to slow the spread