Since the early days of the outbreak of the Coronavirus disease, the term “New Normal”, which I must admit that I have never heard before, became frequently used in relation to life after the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the early afternoon of 8 November 2016 in Yangon, the results of the 2016 United States presidential election became available through radio and television broadcasts.

The United Nation’s Biodiversity Panel has warned that future pandemic will be more deadlier than the prevailing COVID-19. It said over 800,000 viruses, like the novel coronavirus, may be able to infect millions of people across the world. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) said the doom has been brought by the humans themselves through habitat destruction and insatiable consumption. COVID-19 is the sixth such pandemic since the 1918s influenza outbreak.

With some COVID-19 patients reporting long-term symptoms, including damage to major organs, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged Governments to ensure they receive necessary care.

In my previous article that was published in the 27 October issue of the GNLM, I had mentioned the “impacts of the climate change on human health”. Now, I deem it necessary to discuss the ways and means to counter those ravages of climate change.