COVID-19 the virus more widely known as coronavirus, is the talk of the town these last few days.

Being declared a worldwide pandemic from the WHO, it unleashed huge waves of shock in the sectors of global health, science, government, and business among others.

The coronavirus is of course not the first major global outbreak that ended up taking hundreds of lives and causing massive losses to the global economy. Yet, in today’s interconnected world, is even more difficult to quantify the emotional as well as the financial implications.