War against COVID-19: Where exactly are we?

It is over three months now since the world was thrown off balance by a strange pandemic which has taken millions of lives even among the big and powerful nations of the world, powerful nations who are, under normal circumstances expected to provide the impetus to encourage the weaker and smaller ones, particularly in Africa. Such big nations in which science and technology abound are even more devastated. This is where our misery and fear of the unknown begins to manifest, with our health services barely managing to face the challenge with the scarce means at our disposal, in the…